Keith,
such information would be really handy as we have to write up some
release notes for the known bug for when 13.10 final-beta comes out
on Thursday.
With the fix from upstream only currently available in amd64 for the
'it freezes at the end of instal' section, which does not solve a
further bug that we can see. Joe is of the opinion that there are,
in fact, two bugs affecting zram. Getting the upstream patch into an
ISO will at least give ISO's that will install on lower RAM machines
without the 'freeze' at the end. It will also allow people with 32
bit, amd-mac and ppc architecture to take it for a spin (excuse the
pun).
Regards,
Phill.
On 25 September 2013 19:20, <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 25, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
On 2013-09-25 19:01, keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I attempted an install from the 20130924 Live ISO via a usb flash
drive.
I selected the automatic resize option. The hard drive is 120GB and
already has a fully updated 13.10 installation on it. The resizing
went
normally and the installation began.
The system froze at the slide showing the video features. I had to
leave
the room after starting the installation, so I'm not sure how far
along
that slide is, but the progress bar had hardly advanced.
The mouse and keyboard were frozen, as was the little progress wheel
on
the screen. I had to do a hard reset by holding the power button in
for
5 seconds.
I rebooted into my previously installed 13.10 system (now occupying
half
the hard drive space) and verified the hard drive was partitioned for
the new installation. My previous installation seems to be unaffected.
Regards,
Keith Rogers
Hi Keith,
I'm not sure, but I guess that zRAM is used also for PPC. If so, try
to
perform the installation after you have switched off zRAM according to
the following mail.
sudo swapoff /dev/zram0
sudo swapoff /dev/zram1
...
sudo rmmod zram
-----------------------------------
Check with
swapon -s
that there is no active zram device.
Best regards
Nio
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: AW: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu 13.10 beta
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:40:53 +0200
From: Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>
To: Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>, Julien Lavergne
<gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>, "Ali Linx
(amjjawad)" <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>, Nik Th <nikth@xxxxxxx>, Kjetil
brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil1001@xxxxxxxxx>,
"lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2013, 15:37:37 schrieb Phill Whiteside:
Thanks,
I've just come accross
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2162655&p=12735571#post12735571and
sudo parted -l
also gives me
Error: /dev/zram0: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/zram1: unrecognised disk label
So, it is increasingly looking like zram is the culprit (or rather the
fact
it is the 'not working' version).
It's way out of my depth now! But, from reading the ubuntu forums
post, it
may also explain these random lock ups that (some of us) have been
seeing.
You can test it on your own by deactivating zram
sudo swapoff /dev/zram0
sudo swapoff /dev/zram1
sudo rmmod zram
and see if it freezes again.
With zram enabled it should only freeze when really writing to those
zram
swapdevices otherwise no freeze should appear.
Hi Nio,
Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try.
Best regards,
Keith
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