Number of bugs in Ubuntu 13.04
Gabor Toth
gabor.me at gmail.com
Tue May 7 10:37:09 UTC 2013
Thanks, I will check those out and file the reports.
G
On 05/06/2013 11:30 PM, Charles Profitt wrote:
> There are some docs on the bug squad wiki that should help. In general
> if you report a bug people will assist with getting the correct
> package. In all honesty bug reports have a better chance of being
> addressed on the development version.
>
> Gabor Toth <gabor.me at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yea, that is how far I got with my guessing. 4 GB RAM should be
> enough, especially as I have 6 or 8 GB Swap. Never before did I run
> out of that.
>
> Anyhow, as I said I would be willing to file the reports, just need a
> hint under what package do I do it. This is why I wrote here. If
> there is another list I should write to please let me know too. I am
> willing to put time and work into this so it can be fixed for all
> (including me of course ;-) )
>
> G
>
> On 05/06/2013 11:16 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:
>> sorry, i don't know. i'm guessing "1" was a lack of RAM/Swap
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Gabor Toth <gabor.me at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gabor.me at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> Any suggestion under what package do I file the bug? I have
>> actually no idea what, especially on point 1, I do not know what
>> froze the system up. Same on 2 and 3. On 4 I guess that is the
>> Alsa package, or something else? Can you give me some suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> G
>>
>> On 05/06/2013 11:09 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:
>>> 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
>>> <mailto: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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