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Hi there,
I am going to stop reporting bug reports for now, as you people will not
read them anyway.
I have confirmed with the help of canonical support that the laptop I am
using has no defective hardware. The BIOS is not broke, since I have
reflashed the BIOS with an upgraded version, from the Acer website. For
the few bugs I could easily reproduce this does not change a thing. What
we have found out is that the BIOS developed by the Phoenix people for
Acer, does not support 4 GB. Acer claims that the system supports 4 GB,
but the people from Phoenix must have limited the BIOS to 3 GB, since it
was made for use with Windows 32-bit. The system has two identical sodim
sockets and I have two identical 2 GB chips, that were sold to me fully
installed by an official eBay reseller. I have tested both sockets and
both chips by memtest86+ 1.65 1.70 and 2.01. Everything came up clean
except the alfa 5 2.01 test, which had a bug, but is now fixed. I had a
problem before when trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, as the 32-bit
only recognises 3 GB. Back then a faulty memtest86+ test surfaced. I
have the memtest86+ version in backup, but it is preinstalled and backed
up with Windows Live OneCare and I have no idea how to determine the
version number. Really it does not change anything, as when I remove one
of the chips, the same bugs seem to persist. That is, the ones that are
easily reproducible. I now get less crashes both due to the fact that I
now only run Ubuntu repositories, other than VirtualBox 2.0.2 and Skype-
debian as described in the community docs, as well as alfa 6 and maybe
also because I only use 2 GB and the BIOS update. I do use many
multiverse and restricted applications though.
I maybe still able to help with the following data:
My AptonCD bug persists. Only faster since I now use only 2 GB RAM. I
have tracked and described this behaviour with gnome-system-monitor and
Valgrind log several weeks ago, but Tormod would not look into it since
he suspected hardware failure. The problem is there that APTonCD writes
everything away to the RAM chip(s) and crashes when they are full,
without utilising the 2 GB swap I have.
The gvfs trash bug I reported as new because of a different title was
actually caused by opening different applications with nautilus, it gave
a wastebin popup and all other stuff, nautilus and firefox include just
crashed. It also occured sometimes on startup, but since I keep my
wastebin empty and with all the updates it stopped happening. Maybe some
people don't know how to solve their wastebin permissions issue.
The consolekit bug resurfaced only once, during an upgrade of hardy to
the latest 8.10 alfa. I tried to open a deluge torrent video file that
had not ended downloading fully, I got a freeze up and a fatal system
crash requiring reinstall. I could not rescue the system since HAL had
not finished installing. I noted however an error message in the
terminal pointing out a console kit conflict. I have copied it manually,
but it is rather long. Just ask if you need it. I think I installed X
kernel or core dump through synaptic and I have backed up var and etc,
but I do not know how to use that. I asked for feedback on this earlier
but have not received it.
The landscape bug that is still open (sysinfo) may be reproducible. I
had my landscape account open in a firefox tap. I ran '$ sudo dpkg-
reconfigure -aup low'. When I got to landscape config I accidentally
pressed yes, yes and did not fill in username and password. Then it
crashed.
I also asked for help on how to find my bug reports that were closed
down as invalid, to recover my comments. Tormod said I should activate
something in the GUI, but has not tolled me how to.
Canonical asked me specifically not to Google for stress testing tools
and try them out, since if it crashes something the will have to provide
assistance for that too. They wanted to search for suitable tools for
this in main, but I agreed that I should not use up their time for that
since I do not have any major problems in hardy.
I have spent a lot of time on trying to reflash the BIOS, since my
Freedos live cd displayed an error code and the RedHat flashrom tool
would not work and such. Anyway, I found it was easier and faster for me
to format the entire disk to ntfs and relash from Windows, as I had to
reformat anyway.
I have not a lot of time available anymore since the holidays are over,
so ask me in first person if you need to know something or give me
instructions on how to recover my closed reports first, or I will have
to let everything time out.
Thank you for helping make Ubunu better,
Thomas
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