| Sarvatt | marjo: ok try booting with vga=315 added to grub | 00:00 |
|---|---|---|
| Sarvatt | if that works, update your bios to fix it | 00:01 |
| marjo | Sarvatt: add vga=315 to the kernel command line? | 00:01 |
| * Sarvatt nods | 00:01 | |
| marjo | Sarvatt: no such luck; drum heard, blank screen | 00:02 |
| marjo | Sarvatt: still want dmesg? | 00:02 |
| Sarvatt | marjo: what does dmesg | grep "vesafb: mode" say when booting with that vga=315? | 00:03 |
| Sarvatt | 800x600? | 00:04 |
| marjo | Sarvatt: returns nothing | 00:04 |
| * Sarvatt scratches head | 00:05 | |
| Sarvatt | apw: la la la? :) | 00:09 |
| bryceh | Sarvatt, any thoughts on bug #692677? | 00:51 |
| ubot4 | Launchpad bug 692677 in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu) (and 1 other project) "Desktop login to unity leads to hang and compiz crash when X Server Display Confirmation is clicked on (affects: 1) (heat: 8)" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/692677 | 00:51 |
| bryceh | nvidia-setting's glx calls through unity behave differently than when booted with classic desktop | 00:52 |
| bjsnider | for something that's "trivial to fix" that is a large patch | 01:26 |
| RAOF | Hm. So, I can't reproduce *that* crash, but nvidia-settings is all manner of messed up here. | 01:41 |
| RAOF | Which is odd, because it was working perfectly last night. | 01:42 |
| RAOF | SIGFPE! Woot! | 01:43 |
| bryceh | RAOF, hrm | 02:15 |
| RAOF | Just updating to the most current stuff & seeing if I can reproduce. | 02:16 |
| bryceh | Sarvatt, RAOF: Example output from new apport hook - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/693667 | 03:36 |
| ubot4 | Launchpad bug 693667 in xorg (Ubuntu) "Yet another apport test (affects: 1) (heat: 6)" [Undecided,New] | 03:36 |
| RAOF | You know about the APPORT_STAGING env variable, yes? | 03:37 |
| RAOF | Also, that nvidia-settings thing is weird. | 03:37 |
| bryceh | oh, hadn't seen mention of APPORT_STAGING before | 03:38 |
| bryceh | anyway, I mostly test apport locally anyway | 03:39 |
| RAOF | Is DistUpgraded the last time the machine was upgraded from one release to another, or the last time dist-upgrade was run (that's a stupid terminology confusion :() | 03:40 |
| bjsnider | what does an apt-get dist-upgrade do exactly? | 03:42 |
| RAOF | Upgrade + install new packages if appropriate. | 03:43 |
| bjsnider | upgrade to a new distro? | 03:43 |
| RAOF | “upgrade” is just “install newer versions of what I've got installed, but don't install any new packages” | 03:43 |
| bjsnider | well, if it's not upgrading to a new distro then i don't see why it's called "dist-upgrade". sounds like it should do what update-manager -d does | 03:44 |
| bryceh | RAOF, specifically it is top -n 1 from /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log | 03:44 |
| RAOF | It does, dosen't it :) | 03:44 |
| bryceh | RAOF, which isn't precisely what I'm after so I might change it | 03:45 |
| RAOF | Hm. SIGFPE in nvidia_drv for all! | 03:45 |
| bryceh | basically what I want is a mechanical way to indicate whether the user's system was upgraded from a prior release, or was a fresh install to natty (possibly with some updates) | 03:46 |
| RAOF | Yeah. That's a fine goal. | 03:46 |
| bryceh | my working theory is that the existence of any content in /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log would indicate an upgraded machine | 03:46 |
| bryceh | but I'm open to better solutions | 03:47 |
| bryceh | for now though, being called to dinner... bbl | 03:47 |
| RAOF | Hm. Working theory - switching to display server configuration *sometimes* causes nvidia-settings to resize its window to nonsensical values; from here, maximising will crash the server with an FPE in nvidia_drv, or gtk-window-decorator will BadAlloc first. | 03:50 |
| bjsnider | maybe dist-upgrade is one of those things that makes more sense in debian, where there's only a new distro every thousand years or so, than it does in ubuntu, where you can't throw a rock without hitting a new distro | 03:51 |
| RAOF | Well, it really does look like 06_thingamy.patch is to blame. | 05:16 |
| bryceh | RAOF, oh? | 05:35 |
| bryceh | bjsnider, yeah the upgrade vs. dist-upgrade thing has always seemed weird. | 05:36 |
| RAOF | bryceh: Well, I rebuilt nvidia-settings without it and it doesn't seem to trigger the same madness. | 05:59 |
| bryceh | hmm, well sounds like the patch needs more work before we can be shipping it | 06:37 |
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| uros1 | any chance to run fan speed control with old NVIDIA 8500GT | 20:49 |
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