[Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-08-17 Thread Leann Ogasawara
Closing per the previous comment. Thanks. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390204 You received this bug notification because you are a m

Re: [Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-07-29 Thread jerzyo
It turned out that it was a RAM onfiguration in BIOS so the problem is solved for me. -- Best regards, Jerzy Orlowski Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Trojdena 4, Warsaw, Poland Wei-Yee Chan wrote: > This sounds similar

[Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-07-29 Thread Wei-Yee Chan
This sounds similar to a problem that I experienced yesterday. I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 9.04 recently and formatted every partition to ext4. Yesterday, I was moving huge video files from my home directory to a removable USB hard disk (formatted to ext4 as well) when the system froze p

Re: [Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-06-29 Thread jerzyo
OK The computer is currently in the company where I bought it. I installed windows and got similar problems so it is propably some hardware problem. I will run your script when I get it back Jerzy qwerty wrote: > Run this shell while copying the files (change the ITERATIONS value if > you need

[Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-06-27 Thread qwerty
Run this shell while copying the files (change the ITERATIONS value if you need to) ... it will monitor the memory usage (amount of data waiting to be written to disk). If the values remain high for too long (there may be a bottleneck when writing to disk), then your problem could be solved by tunn

[Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-06-25 Thread jerzyo
OK, I tried to download it to another disc (the same model but NTFS partition) and got the same problem. Next step will be to do the same in Vista and check if hrdware is OK. -- Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-06-25 Thread jerzyo
Hi I found that this problem is also not connected with copying from ATA disk. Today I tried to copy 11GB by scp in local network an got the same, repeatable hangup (once after 1GB, once after 6.3GB). This time the memory usage was normal and no swap was being used. It looks like problem with wr

[Bug 390204] Re: Ubuntu hangs up from time to time when I try to copy files from ATA NTFS to SATA ext4 partition

2009-06-21 Thread Kees Cook
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privile