suspected bug

[Zygmunt Krynicki]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Gary Smith <gary.smith.rsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am sure that this isn't the formal or usual manner in which to report bugs
> but please bear with me.
>
> I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10. on a HP Pavilion 11 x360 and
> this includes checkbox-ng (0.20.1-1)
>
> The machine suffers from regular "freezes" i.e. no response to any input and
> the display is frozen.
>
> I upgraded the kernel to 4.3.0-040300-generic in an attempt to resolve the
> issue. No difference.
>
> The last entries in the syslog file prior to the freeze are as follows:
> Nov 13 17:34:28 gary-beats com.canonical.certification.PlainBox1[1274]:
> WARNING checkbox.ng.service: SetOutcome() called before RunCommand()
> Nov 13 17:34:28 gary-beats com.canonical.certification.PlainBox1[1274]:
> WARNING checkbox.ng.service: But the job is not manual, it is user-interact
> Nov 13 17:34:28 gary-beats com.canonical.certification.PlainBox1[1274]:
> WARNING checkbox.ng.service: (_result_changed) Unable to remove old result:
> <MemoryJobResult>
>
> If I am on the right track in identifying the culprit of the freezes and if
> there is anything that I can do to assist - please advise.

Hey. Thanks for the report!

Can you tell us if you were running checkbox or plainbox at the time?
Typically checkbox-ng service that you see here is something that is
only running when checkbox GUI is started. It's not something that
should run at any other times.

Best regards
ZK