[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2010-09-16 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gdm Status: Invalid => Expired ** Changed in: gdm Importance: Unknown => High -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2010-06-04 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gdm Status: In Progress => Invalid -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2009-12-09 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/tracker -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list u

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2009-12-09 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/hardy-proposed/tracker ** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/intrepid-updates/tracker -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-12-07 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package tracker - 0.6.6-1ubuntu5.1 --- tracker (0.6.6-1ubuntu5.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low * debian/tracker.install: - don't install the dbus service so tracker is not automatically started when other software try to see if it's already runn

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-12-03 Thread Martin Pitt
** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-12-03 Thread Pelládi Gábor
I tested tracker 0.6.6-1ubuntu5.1 from proposed and I can confirm that it fixes this bug. It is no longer activated by gdmsetup. Directories like /root/.cache/tracker, /root/.local/share/tracker and /root/.config/tracker are no longer created when launching gdmsetup, unlike version 0.6.6-1ubuntu5.

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-11-27 Thread Martin Pitt
Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed Target

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-11-13 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package tracker - 0.6.6-2ubuntu1 --- tracker (0.6.6-2ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: - debian/sysctl.d/30-tracker.conf: + add sysctl for increased inotify limits (broken out from procps). - debian/

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Pitt
I just confirmed that this is still an issue in intrepid. ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: Fix Committed => In Progress Target: intrepid-alpha-2 => intrepid-updates -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.laun

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-09-08 Thread wpshooter
To the best of my recall, I do not remember seeing this bug on version 8.04.1 of Hardy the last time I did a test installation of it. However, that HAS been quite a while back. I do not yet use Hardy because, I still believe Gutsy is the most reliable release. Thanks. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause

Re: [Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-09-08 Thread Id2ndR
> Is there any progress on this? Ok a fresh install of Intrepid alpha5, I didn't encountered the trouble. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-09-08 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Is there any progress on this? -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

Re: [Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-19 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
I don't necessarily think that it is a good idea to autostart an indexer. I am just pointing out that some apps rely on it. I say again "DBus activation is indeed a double edged sword" :-) -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-18 Thread Sebastien Bacher
why do you think that applications starting tracker over dbus is a good idea? users don't expect to get their system to start doing lot of io for the day just because they used deskbar-applet or nautilus search, especially when they disabled the tracker autostart to avoid that. autostarting tracker

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-17 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
I see. So either use dbus directly without libtracker, add a peek_tracker_running() method to libtracker, or disable dbus activation. The simple solution is of course understandable for Hardy, but may break other apps (the deskbar handler relies on the activation file for instance). For intrepid a

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
the issue is that checking if tracker is running using libtracker will active the index, that's creating issue for users who desactivated the service because they don't use it and that's not giving any useful informations anyway because the indexer starts -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-17 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
This feels as the wrong solution to me. Many apps may assume that Tracker will start by dbus activation. The 'right' fix is to make the Tracker backend of the filechooser not launch Tracker, merely see if it is installed (check if it is dbus activatable)[1]. Then if the user enters a query then Tra

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Needs to be fixed in Intrepid ASAP. ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu) Target: None => intrepid-alpha-2 ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-16 Thread Martin Pitt
Copied to hardy-updates. ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

Re: [Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-10 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I tested it on a vanilla install of 8.04, then enabled hardy-proposed, updated, and the fix worked okay. ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15172981/unnamed -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-10 Thread Martin Pitt
** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-10 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Tested on a clean Hardy installation and on a old Hardy installation and it seems to work perfectly. I don't really use tracker so I don't know if there is side effects caused by this patch in tracker. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bug

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-10 Thread Sebastien Bacher
there is an autostart installed which run it when the session starts, there is no reason the autoactivation should be required -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-09 Thread Jason
Sebastien's proposed patch works for me, though I'm not sure whether it sacrifices any functionality of tracker in any way, i.e. whether tracker needs this "autostart" feature under any circumstances. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed Target: ubuntu-8.04.1 => None ** Tags added: verification-needed -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-09 Thread Sebastien Bacher
trivial change is to not install the dbus service so tracker will not been automatically started when not required ** Attachment added: "the debdiff for the stable update" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15139212/tracker.debdifff -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Sebastien, is a proposed solution available for this bug? I think this is very worthwhile to have fixed in hardy, though I doubt that 8.04.1 is a realistic target here; maybe we should be targeting 8.04.2? ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu Hardy) Target: None => ubuntu-8.04.1 -- [hardy] gdm

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu) Target: ubuntu-8.04.1 => None -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-19 Thread Vadim Peretokin
libracker-gtk0 is needed for Tracker, which *is* installed by default. It's just a bug that needs to be fixed in it, I guess. However not everyone also has this problem either. I've asked about, and others don't have it. ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14613368/un

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-19 Thread wpshooter
Does this mean that every time I do an installation of Hardy on a new computer that this is just 1 more thing that I have to put on my either mental or written listing to change in order to get this to work correctly or will this libtracker-gtk0 package be fixed so that it willNOT install during th

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-19 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Confirmed the bug... and removing libtracker-gtk0 fixed it. Thanks -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-18 Thread wpshooter
Yes, I also get this on the Final release/production version of Hardy. Seems to me that whatever is causing this should be fixed or at a minimum something should be put in place to tell the user what is going on when they initially click on the login window function and it takes several minutes to

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-18 Thread James Bellinger
I get this same bug in the release version. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-09 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: New => Invalid -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-09 Thread Sebastien Bacher
that's not a gdm bug ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided => Medium Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: New => Invalid -- [hardy] gd

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-05-08 Thread Martin Pitt
We agreed to just disable the automagic tracker activation over dbus by not installing the .service file any more. ** Changed in: tracker (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128) -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-29 Thread Sebastien Bacher
that's something several users complained about and why we stopped building nautilus using it, the api to query if tracker is running should not be using dbus which trigger the autoactivation then but rather using a lock file on the disk or something which indicates if tracker is running or not do

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-28 Thread Jamie McCracken
calling a single method in libtracker will trigger launch of trackerd via dbus activation. This cannot be fixed at the tracker end as there is no way to turn off said activation - its an intrinsic property of all dbus services In this particular case the best we can do is prevent indexing by tra

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
gdm doesn't use tracker directory, the dialog uses gtk fileselector widgets which have a search files entry in the sidebar, that feature is using tracker when available, now when the dialog is create the widgets are initialized, gtk uses libtracker to know if tracker is available and somewhat it ge

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-28 Thread Jui-Hao Chiang
I just upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 LTS yesterday. The gdmsetup runs normally yesterday before I disable the indexing. When I run the gdmetup, it shows no error message, but Sebastien says, it triggers a trackerd up to search for something (I don't know). So, if I run the indexing, then gdmsetup runs

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-28 Thread Jean-François Fortin Tam
I really have to ask now (out of genuine curiosity), wtf does tracker have to do with gdm (or even, gdmsetup for that matter)? isn't it a user-level app anyway? what is there to index over there? (I guess we are talking about the tracker indexing/search tool) -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive d

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
the issue seems to be due to libtracker, it's trying to use tracker but should not autostart it if it's not running -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a membe

Re: [Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-27 Thread Ian Johnston
Saïvann Carignan wrote: > Thanks for your participation but please don't confirm a bug more than > once, one confirmation is enough. We should keep bug reports as short > and relevant as possible to help developers. I thought it would help to have information that the problem is not a quirl of a

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-27 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Thanks for your participation but please don't confirm a bug more than once, one confirmation is enough. We should keep bug reports as short and relevant as possible to help developers. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-27 Thread Ian Johnston
Confirmed again on a clean installation of Hardy final. As an extra twist, "Login Window" is not displayed on the "Administration" menu, although according to the menu editor it is there. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-27 Thread Igor Nikolic
Confirmed on a cleanly installed Hardy AMD64. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mail

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-26 Thread Pjotr12345
Confirmed for a clean installation of Hardy final. Can this be fixed in 8.04.1? -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-26 Thread EtherRealm
Also confirm this with a clean install of Hardy final release. It takes a long time to load gdmsetup and the intensive ticking of the hard drive while loading. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received t

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-24 Thread David Grant
Thanks for all your work. Could tracker be disabled by default for the root user? -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-24 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: gdm Status: Unknown => In Progress -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-24 Thread nglnx
** Also affects: gdm via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164786 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-24 Thread nglnx
This bug is a consequence of a longstanding upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164786 (gdm frontend runs entirely as root) Notice that this upstream bug was opened in 2005, currently shows an assigned status, a priority=high and a severity=major. This bug has been the source

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-19 Thread Pjotr12345
Also confirmed with a clean installation of Hardy Release Candidate. I hope this will be fixed in time for the final release. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 204770] Re: [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open

2008-04-18 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Confirmed with a clean Hardy RC install. -- [hardy] gdmsetup cause intensive disk activity and take a very long time to open https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing l