Number of bugs in Ubuntu 13.04

[Jackson Doak]

file bugs for everything, then try and see if they affect quantal or saucy
as well.
use "ubuntu-bug PACKAGE" to file bugs.


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Gabor Toth <gabor.me at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I have been running 12.10 and it was very stable for me.  Then recently
> upgraded to 13.04 and while the upgrade went well and I like the new stuff
> and changes (not a lot, but still nice) there a number of bugs which I was
> a bit startled about and did not know what bug report to file or how to go
> about reporting it.  I have some time I could spend helping on the fixing
> of these and thus please feel free to shoot at me things that I should do
> to provide more data or test things and so on.  As a general data I am
> running UBUNTU 13.04 on a Dell Inspirion 17R with 4 Gb RAM.  I also have an
> external screen, an LG small flat screen TV connected through HDMI.  Here
> is the list:
>
>    1. Since installation the system froze up entirely 3 times.  The last
>    time I had Google Chrome, GIMP, Libreoffice Writer open and I was just
>    talking on Skype.  The whole system froze but I could still continue speak
>    on Skype - it was weird.  Nothing worked from there.  The mouse moved, but
>    no response to clicks.  Tried Ctrl+Alt+F1 - no response, beside some hard
>    disk activity, but no change on the screen.  Then tried Ctrl+Alt+Del a
>    number of times and beside some hard disk activity, no change - or actually
>    the mouse cursor have disappeared.  Had to do a total hard shutdown with
>    the power button kept in for 5 sec.  The system started up normal after.
>    2. Not sure if related to the above, but two times I had a problem
>    with shutting the system down.  I clicked on shut down however during the
>    shut down sequence the system froze or at least did not continue.  The
>    "dots" kept moving like something is still happening, but no hard disk
>    activity, nor anything for a long time.  Once by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del I
>    managed to get the system to restart and then could shut it down properly
>    but the other time I had to use the power button to power off.  Weird.
>    3. Once I had a problem to start the system up.  The graphical screen
>    disappeared and only some text was left on the screen, seemingly frozen.
>    Then I switched to text mode with Ctrl+Alt+F1, that worked and immediately
>    back to graphical (F7) and I got the graphical login screen and all went
>    fine.
>    4. There seems to be a bug with the sound system.  Originally it
>    worked fine except the fact that I could not direct the sound to the
>    external screen through the HDMI cable.  Seemingly the sound did not
>    recognize that it is there.  Then sometimes after powering the system up I
>    only gout a "Dummy Output" and no sound at all.  I Googled it and found a
>    solution of re-installing the Alsa sound system and that stabilized the
>    sound, it works all the time now, but still no way to use the HDMI output.
>    I am getting a scratchy sound when Skype starts but later on the call sound
>    quality is perfect and also playback sound from all sources (Youtube,
>    Banshee, etc.) are good.
>
>
> These are the stuff that came with the upgrade to 13.04.  Previously on
> 12.04 and 12.10 the system was working fine and stably and would like to
> put some work into making it again that stable - need some directions
> though.  I can file bug reports or attach files or anything needed and help
> out on the testing just need some directions.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best,
>
> Gabor
>
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