Bug #267633 “aptoncd crashed with OSError in _execute_child()” : Bugs : aptoncd package : Ubuntu

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-08:

#1

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote on 2008-09-08:

#2

Thanks for taking your time to report this bug. This is a memory issue. Did you run any other application except APTonCD? Can you try to reprodice this error and monitor the memory behavior using gnome-system-monitor?

Changed in aptoncd:
status:	New → Incomplete
status:	New → Incomplete

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#3

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Yes I reproduced it and recorded it with Istanbul, I do not know unfortunately were the file is stored. It should be: ~/desktop-recording.ogg. There is nothing there. Anyway, I tried it twice, but I did not get an error report. Instead I found again that only 3 GB of memory gets detected, while 4 GB is installed. I described this earlier in the memtest86 bug. As soon as 100% of memory is reached, it crashes. Swap stays at about 10% throughout.

Please find screenshots in attachment, virtualbox allows me to select 3.7 GB of memory (leaving 300 MB for the host), while gnome-system-monitor recognises only 3GB. I have described this problem on the ubuntu forum. See link.

Hi there, I think it is impossible to describe this bug on a single bug per bug report basis. Could you please check out my post about BIOS settings being altered, possibly by are in relationship with the consolekit bug(s)?

The reason I initially described this bug as a potential security risk, is due to the fact that it did lead under a previous form to a freeze up of synaptic, leaving my password visible on screen for more than 2 hours (see slideshow).

Since this bug is difficult to invoke on purpose, but often occurs and leaves my system unrepairable about every three days, forcing me to reinstall without partitioning, I think it is better to bundle my experiences on the ubuntu forum first:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=912682

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#6

I don't understand you. Did you retry what you did and recreate this very bug (APTonCD crashing when creating the disk)? If so, what exactly did you do? How many packages did you select?
Please note that this bug report is only about the APTonCD issue.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#7

Hi there, I think it is impossible to describe this bug on a single bug per bug report basis. Could you please check out my post about BIOS settings being altered, possibly by are in relationship with the consolekit bug(s)?

The reason I initially described this bug as a potential security risk, is due to the fact that it did lead under a previous form to a freeze up of synaptic, leaving my password visible on screen for more than 2 hours (see slideshow).

Since this bug is difficult to invoke on purpose, but often occurs and leaves my system unrepairable about every three days, forcing me to reinstall without partitioning, I think it is better to bundle my experiences on the ubuntu forum first:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=912682

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#8

APTonCD-crash.odp Edit (204.0 KiB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)

Yes I did reproduce it twice. I agree this is a memory issue. Look at the slides. I also added a series of slides about the second attempt I did when trying to monitor the event. I want to say also that backtrace does not work for me. Look below:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
[sudo] password for thomas:
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program:
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.
(gdb) exec-file aptoncd
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb)
[1]+ Stopped sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chmod -cR 777 /usr/bin/aptoncd
mode of `/usr/bin/aptoncd' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chown 1000 -cR 777 /usr/bin/aptoncd
chown: cannot access `777': No such file or directory
changed ownership of `/usr/bin/aptoncd' to 1000
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chown 1000 -cR /usr/bin/aptoncd
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program:
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.
(gdb) file
No executable file now.
No symbol file now.
(gdb) exec-file
No executable file now.
(gdb) exec-file aptoncd
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) quit
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo aptoncd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
FATAL -> Failed to fork.
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

Yes I did reproduce it twice. I agree this is a memory issue. Look at the slides. I also added a series of slides about the second attempt I did when trying to monitor the event. I want to say also that backtrace does not work for me. Look below:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
[sudo] password for thomas: 
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal        Stop	Print	Pass to program	Description
SIG33         No	No	Yes		Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program:  
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.
(gdb) exec-file aptoncd
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) 
[1]+  Stopped                 sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chmod -cR 777 /usr/bin/aptoncd
mode of `/usr/bin/aptoncd' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chown 1000 -cR 777 /usr/bin/aptoncd
chown: cannot access `777': No such file or directory
changed ownership of `/usr/bin/aptoncd' to 1000
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo chown 1000 -cR /usr/bin/aptoncd
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gdb aptoncd 2>&1 | tee gdb-aptoncd.txt
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal        Stop	Print	Pass to program	Description
SIG33         No	No	Yes		Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program:  
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.
(gdb) file
No executable file now.
No symbol file now.
(gdb) exec-file
No executable file now.
(gdb) exec-file aptoncd
"/usr/bin/aptoncd": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) quit
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo aptoncd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
FATAL -> Failed to fork.
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#9

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#10

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#11

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get source aptoncd-metapackage
[sudo] password for thomas:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for aptoncd-metapackage
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo synaptic
mainenanceEndTime(): can not find /var/lib/apt/lists/APTonCD%20for%20ubuntu%20intrepid%20-%20i386%20(2008-09-03%2018:34)%20DVD1_dists_/_Release
mainenanceEndTime(): can not find /var/lib/apt/lists/APTonCD%20for%20ubuntu%20intrepid%20-%20i386%20(2008-09-03%2018:34)%20DVD1_dists_/_Release
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gnome-system-monitor
[sudo] password for thomas:

** (gnome-system-monitor:12322): WARNING **: SELinux was found but is not enabled.

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#12

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-09:

#13

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The programs I had running at the time of my second reproduction were Firefox, gnome-terminal, gnome-system-monitor, md5sum /dev/cdrom and deluge-torrent. You can see them in my slight-show. I tried videocapture with Istanbul and vnc2sfw, but it did not work. The slide show should be a good alternative. Anyway, the behaviour I saw was indicative of a BIOS issue. Please check out my post at the forum for more information. I have a discrepancy between the amount of memory recognised by gnome-volume-monitor and VirtualBox. There is 4 GB of memory installed on 2 memory chips of 2 GB each. Virtualbox recognises the correct amount of memory, while gnome-system-monitor, memtest86 and BIOS only recognised 3GB. As I have posted earlier, the eBay-vendor from whom I purchased the laptop, and who is currently delisted, might have tempered with the memory. The amount of memory used by aptoncd increased linearly while aptoncd proceeded with loading applications. When it nears 100% of 3 GB, it invariably crashes. Also I noted that the delug-torrent download used something in the line of 10 % of the slightly over 2 GB swap, but when APTonCD is started, this sometimes falls below 3%, while the RAM nears 3 GB usage.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-11:

#14

valgrind.log Edit (598.1 KiB, text/plain)

Hi,

I have created a valgrind.log.

My BIOS settings are:

Phoenix Trusted Core (tm)
BIOS Version: v1.23
VGA BIOS Version: 1264
KBC Version: 08.26

Also look at my screenshots, have I accidentally installed the wrong BIOS (Asus)?

Cheers,

Thomas

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-11:

#15

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Sorry, I forgot to mention that all of these crashes occur without an apport-gtk bug report being created.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-11:

#16

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-11:

#17

At time of last crash:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ lsb_release -rd ; uname -a ; apt-cache policy linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux linux-source-2.6.27 linux-restricted-modules synaptic apport-gtk software-properties-gtk aptoncd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
Linux thomas-laptop 2.6.26-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 18:39:53 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
linux-headers-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
*** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-image-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
*** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
*** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-source-2.6.27:
  Installed: 2.6.27-3.4
  Candidate: 2.6.27-3.4
  Version table:
*** 2.6.27-3.4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-restricted-modules:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
*** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.62.1ubuntu8
  Candidate: 0.62.1ubuntu8
  Version table:
*** 0.62.1ubuntu8 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
apport-gtk:
  Installed: 0.114
  Candidate: 0.114
  Version table:
*** 0.114 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
software-properties-gtk:
  Installed: 0.66
  Candidate: 0.66
  Version table:
*** 0.66 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
aptoncd:
  Installed: 0.1.98-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.1.98-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 0.1.98-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

At time of last crash:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ lsb_release -rd ; uname -a ; apt-cache policy linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux linux-source-2.6.27 linux-restricted-modules synaptic apport-gtk software-properties-gtk aptoncd
Description:	Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release:	8.10
Linux thomas-laptop 2.6.26-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 18:39:53 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
linux-headers-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-image-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-source-2.6.27:
  Installed: 2.6.27-3.4
  Candidate: 2.6.27-3.4
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27-3.4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-restricted-modules:
  Installed: 2.6.27.2.2
  Candidate: 2.6.27.2.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.2.2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.62.1ubuntu8
  Candidate: 0.62.1ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 0.62.1ubuntu8 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
apport-gtk:
  Installed: 0.114
  Candidate: 0.114
  Version table:
 *** 0.114 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
software-properties-gtk:
  Installed: 0.66
  Candidate: 0.66
  Version table:
 *** 0.66 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
aptoncd:
  Installed: 0.1.98-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.1.98-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.1.98-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote on 2008-09-12:

#18

Please see my comments to tdflanders in bug #268857.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-09-30:

#19

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I am going to stop reporting bug reports for now, as you people will not read them anyway.

I have confirmed with the help of canonical support that the laptop I am using has no defective hardware. The BIOS is not broke, since I have reflashed the BIOS with an upgraded version, from the Acer website. For the few bugs I could easily reproduce this does not change a thing. What we have found out is that the BIOS developed by the Phoenix people for Acer, does not support 4 GB. Acer claims that the system supports 4 GB, but the people from Phoenix must have limited the BIOS to 3 GB, since it was made for use with Windows 32-bit. The system has two identical sodim sockets and I have two identical 2 GB chips, that were sold to me fully installed by an official eBay reseller. I have tested both sockets and both chips by memtest86+ 1.65 1.70 and 2.01. Everything came up clean except the alfa 5 2.01 test, which had a bug, but is now fixed. I had a problem before when trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, as the 32-bit only recognises 3 GB. Back then a faulty memtest86+ test surfaced. I have the memtest86+ version in backup, but it is preinstalled and backed up with Windows Live OneCare and I have no idea how to determine the version number. Really it does not change anything, as when I remove one of the chips, the same bugs seem to persist. That is, the ones that are easily reproducible. I now get less crashes both due to the fact that I now only run Ubuntu repositories, other than VirtualBox 2.0.2 and Skype-debian as described in the community docs, as well as alfa 6 and maybe also because I only use 2 GB and the BIOS update. I do use many multiverse and restricted applications though.

I maybe still able to help with the following data:

My AptonCD bug persists. Only faster since I now use only 2 GB RAM. I have tracked and described this behaviour with gnome-system-monitor and Valgrind log several weeks ago, but Tormod would not look into it since he suspected hardware failure. The problem is there that APTonCD writes everything away to the RAM chip(s) and crashes when...

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Hi there,

I am going to stop reporting bug reports for now, as you people will not read them anyway.

I have confirmed with the help of canonical support that the laptop I am using has no defective hardware. The BIOS is not broke, since I have reflashed the BIOS with an upgraded version, from the Acer website. For the few bugs I could easily reproduce this does not change a thing. What we have found out is that the BIOS developed by the Phoenix people for Acer, does not support 4 GB. Acer claims that the system supports 4 GB, but the people from Phoenix must have limited the BIOS to 3 GB, since it was made for use with Windows 32-bit. The system has two identical sodim sockets and I have two identical 2 GB chips, that were sold to me fully installed by an official eBay reseller. I have tested both sockets and both chips by memtest86+ 1.65 1.70 and 2.01. Everything came up clean except the alfa 5 2.01 test, which had a bug, but is now fixed. I had a problem before when trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, as the 32-bit only recognises 3 GB. Back then a faulty memtest86+ test surfaced. I have the memtest86+ version in backup, but it is preinstalled and backed up with Windows Live OneCare and I have no idea how to determine the version number. Really it does not change anything, as when I remove one of the chips, the same bugs seem to persist. That is, the ones that are easily reproducible. I now get less crashes both due to the fact that I now only run Ubuntu repositories, other than VirtualBox 2.0.2 and Skype-debian as described in the community docs, as well as alfa 6 and maybe also because I only use 2 GB and the BIOS update. I do use many multiverse and restricted applications though.

I maybe still able to help with the following data:

My AptonCD bug persists. Only faster since I now use only 2 GB RAM. I have tracked and described this behaviour with gnome-system-monitor and Valgrind log several weeks ago, but Tormod would not look into it since he suspected hardware failure. The problem is there that APTonCD writes everything away to the RAM chip(s) and crashes when they are full, without utilising the  2 GB swap I have.

The gvfs trash bug I reported as new because of a different title was actually caused by opening different applications with nautilus, it gave a wastebin popup and all other stuff, nautilus and firefox include just crashed. It also occured sometimes on startup, but since I keep my wastebin empty and with all the updates it stopped happening. Maybe some people don't know how to solve their wastebin permissions issue.

The consolekit bug resurfaced only once, during an upgrade of hardy to the latest 8.10 alfa. I tried to open a deluge torrent video file that had not ended downloading fully, I got a freeze up and a fatal system crash requiring reinstall. I could not rescue the system since HAL had not finished installing. I noted however an error message in the terminal pointing out a console kit conflict. I have copied it manually, but it is rather long. Just ask if you need it. I think I installed X kernel or core dump through synaptic and I have backed up var and etc, but I do not know how to use that. I asked for feedback on this earlier but have not received it.

The landscape bug that is still open (sysinfo) may be reproducible. I had my landscape account open in a firefox tap. I ran '$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup low'. When I got to landscape config I accidentally pressed yes, yes and did not fill in username and password. Then it crashed.

I also asked for help on how to find my bug reports that were closed down as invalid, to recover my comments. Tormod said I should activate something in the GUI, but has not tolled me how to.

Canonical asked me specifically not to Google for stress testing tools and try them out, since if it crashes something the will have to provide assistance for that too. They wanted to search for suitable tools for this in main, but I agreed that I should not use up their time for that since I do not have any major problems in hardy.

I have spent a lot of time on trying to reflash the BIOS, since my Freedos live cd displayed an error code and the RedHat flashrom tool would not work and such. Anyway, I found it was easier and faster for me to format the entire disk to ntfs and relash from Windows, as I had to reformat anyway.

I have not a lot of time available anymore since the holidays are over, so ask me in first person if you need to know something or give me instructions on how to recover my closed reports first, or I will have to let everything time out.

Thank you for helping make Ubunu better,

Thomas

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-10-01:

#21

Hi,

to save on your valuable time as Tormod would call it:

My AptonCD bug persists. Only faster since I now use only 2 GB RAM. I have tracked and described this behaviour with gnome-system-monitor and Valgrind log several weeks ago, but Tormod would not look into it since he suspected hardware failure. The problem is there that APTonCD writes everything away to the RAM chip(s) and crashes when they are full, without utilising the 2 GB swap I have.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-10-01:

#22

hwinfo-log Edit (280.0 KiB, text/plain)

OK,

this hwinfo thing is not working to well either:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ hwinfo --log /home/thomas/Desktop/hwinfo-log
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ hwinfo | hwinfo --log /home/thomas/Desktop/hwinfo-log
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ hwinfo | less

[1]+ Stopped hwinfo | less
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ hwinfo > /home/thomas/Desktop/hwinfo-log
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

I have uploaded the log file. Please tell me which piece of hardware is malfunctioning and which stress test you propose to validate it. Really, my hardware is just working fine as far as I can tell.

Unfortunately the flashrom tool does not work either, so I do not have an easy way to reflash the BIOS. Otherwise I would certainly reflash it with u-boot to see if there is any difference. I have reflashed the BIOS with the latest version provided to me by Acer.

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote on 2008-10-01: Re: [Bug 267633] Re: aptoncd crashed with OSError in _execute_child()

#23

Handling this is beyond my power.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-10-01:

#24

Screenshot-System Monitor.png Edit (65.5 KiB, image/png)

Now that may be a fair remark there Kjell,

still this bug is repeatable and on a system with ubuntu repositories only. Although many of these being from universe and/or multiverse. Also the hardware is working correctly unless you can tell me which piece of hardware is not and say what stress test I need to validate this. Also be kind enough please to continue your private communication over here so someone with more power can have a look at this. Look at the screenshots for swap usage. The first one is with deluge running, the second one is with nothing else running except gnome-terminal, gnome-system-monitor and aptoncd.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-10-01:

#25

Screenshot-System Monitor-1.png Edit (67.0 KiB, image/png)

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote on 2008-10-07:

#26

Marking as a duplicate of bug 272509, the memory issues have been acknowledged upstream.

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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2008-10-09:

#27

Hi Kjell,

good to hear the APTonCD issue is being worked on. I need to do nothing further there in the mean time?

Maybe you will want to pick up this compiz thing:

Bug #280961:
This report is private
I had this today on a fully updated system, so either the fix released status is in doubt, or it is a new bug, or a stale crash report, but still I checked /var/crash recently end deleted all reports, so I doubt the last option. If you check this developers might get it quicker and also the last bug report I commented on and you relocated after the backtrace, created an avalanche of people asking to unsubscribe them, probably due to a launchpad bug.
Thanks,
Thomas

----- Original Message ----
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Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 2:33:51 PM
Subject: [Bug 267633] Re: aptoncd crashed with OSError in _execute_child()

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 272509 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272509

Marking as a duplicate of bug 272509, the memory issues have been
acknowledged upstream.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 272509
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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2013-06-19: FW: thomas delbeke

#28

http://alparslanparlak.com/op/pgm/fhpygl/rhnsgx/yycx/vbeet.html
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tdflanders (thomasdelbeke) wrote on 2018-05-21:

#29

http://mission.itafaji.com

Thomas Delbeke

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	aptoncd (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

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