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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sort of says it all....


Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
16:49 (10 minutes ago)
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Regards,

Phill.


On 18 September 2013 16:36, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Indeed, those are my thoughts - hence my quick chat with the kernel team
> and them asking that I raise a bug with all the information I can lay my
> hands on! Feel free to add comments when you click the 'affects me'. The
> bug is now up and running, additional 'affects me' and comments will assist
> the kernel team until such time as they state that they have enough
> information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 18 September 2013 16:30, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-09-18 17:18, Nik Th wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>
>> >> From: Nio Wiklund
>> >>
>> >> Sent: 09/18/13 04:58 PM
>> >>
>> >> To: Nik Th
>> >>
>> >> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu 13.10 beta
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 2013-09-18 15:07, Nik Th wrote:
>> >> > Possibly this is something to do with the installer (ubiquity package
>> >> > maybe ? ) and is frequently encountered in Alpha/Beta versions (I
>> have
>> >> > seen similar problems in Unity and Gnome-shell in older Alpha/Beta
>> >> > releases).
>> >> > Hopefully will be fixed before stable release.
>> >> > If we want to report a bug about this, we have to be completely sure
>> >> > that is a bug. I would suggest to wait and see what will happen after
>> >> > some updates.
>> >> >
>> >> > About the slow shutdown process (when shutdown button pressed from
>> the
>> >> > menu) , this is not a problem in my Saucy installation anymore. Now I
>> >> > have a new problem that I want to examine, and this is a big delay
>> time
>> >> > when I hit the logout button. We'll see.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards
>> >> > NikTh
>> >> >
>> >> > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NikTh --
>> >>
>> >> Now that the problem is described and a lot of people are aware of it,
>> >> chances increase that it will be solved :-)
>> >>
>> >> Lars reports this bug
>> >>
>> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1225429
>> >>
>> >> for Lubuntu Desktop amd64+mac. I think it might be the same problem or
>> >> bug, whatever label we want to attach to it.
>> >>
>> >> The slow shutdown and or slow logout is a minor problem, it may be or
>> >> may not be related to the freezing problem.
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
>> >> Nio
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hmm..., this bug is lack of logs. I think it will be marked as
>> > Incomplete eventually. @Lars wasn't able to gather some logs from
>> > freezing ? (I know it's difficult). Maybe a retry from terminal this
>> > time it would be better.
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > NikTh
>> >
>> > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NikTh --
>>
>> I'm rather convinced it is the zRAM bug, that Leszek described earlier
>> today. I reported success with 768 MB RAM, and now I have succeeded also
>> with 512 MB RAM to install from saucy-desktop-i386.iso without any
>> freeze, when zRAM was switched off. This is half of the RAM necessary to
>> succeed with zRAM (1024 MB), while the limit for the 64-bit version was
>> 1280 MB.
>>
>> So it seems, we need enough RAM to avoid swapping to avoid freezing when
>> the buggy combination of kernel and zRAM is active.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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