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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It was he on the kernel irc channel who I chatted to about the best way to
raise a kernel type bug. I've only done one before... ever! (And I got that
one in from upstream with a lot of help narrowing down the exact 'bit' that
was needed).

Regards,

Phill.


On 18 September 2013 17:13, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
>


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