Number of bugs in Ubuntu 13.04
Gabor Toth
gabor.me at gmail.com
Wed May 8 09:57:12 UTC 2013
Hi Bruno,
Thanks. Sounds correct. Would be good to have some idea under what
package to file those bugs.
G
On 05/08/2013 01:14 AM, Bruno Girin wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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