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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Phill,

You know how to catch the attention of the people who can fix this kind
of problems :-)

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-09-18 18:01, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Sort of says it all....
> 
> 
> Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> 
> 	
> 16:49 (10 minutes ago)
> 		
> to phillw
> 
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => High
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
> 
> On 18 September 2013 16:36, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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