Number of bugs in Ubuntu 13.04

[Jackson Doak]

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> 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> 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
>>
>> --
>> Ubuntu-quality mailing list
>> Ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
>>
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/attachments/20130507/18022e9f/attachment.html>