Number of bugs in Ubuntu 13.04
Bruno Girin
brunogirin at gmail.com
Tue May 7 23:14:52 UTC 2013
Hi Gabor,
I've had all the problems you describe except #4.
For #1 I doubt it's an issue with RAM or swap as I've had it on a machine
with 8GB RAM that was only running a couple of applications. I suspect it
may be a remnant of the GPU hang issue with Intel integrated graphics [1]
but I don't know how to analyse the problem to confirm that.
For #2 and #3, the intermittent nature of the problem seems to suggest a
race condition in startup and shutdown. I have no idea what package to
report that against nor do I know how to debug that sort of problems.
Maybe someone on the QA team can help with suggestions on how to
investigate?
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1140716
Cheers,
Bruno
On 6 May 2013 22:20, 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> 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> 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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