Comment 12 for bug 377370

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Mark Cariaga (mzc) wrote : Re: [Bug 377370] Re: power manager crash

Hi Scott,

I'm regularly testing the karmic daily build. As of 20090724, the gdm
does not load properly and goes to cli, asking for login(development
brach). I've filed this under bug#404577.

Please advise.

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:14 +0000, Scott Howard wrote:
> Thanks for testing it. The daily live would be the best!
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
>
> if that doesn't work, you can try Alpha 2, but it should work.
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-2/
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:06 PM, mzc<email address hidden> wrote:
> > Thanks howard i'll try to burn the daily build - deskptop. would this
> > do?
> >
> > On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 14:02 +0000, Scott Howard wrote:
> >> @mzc: Thank you for the GPM trace. The issue that you reported is one
> >> that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD
> >> of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if
> >> you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next
> >> release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release
> >> at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your
> >> help.
> >>
> >
> > --
> > power manager crash
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377370
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
> > Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> >
> > Bug description:
> > Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
> >
> > Ubuntu 9.04 32
> > gnome-power-manager
> >
> > I know most reports of this nature concern notebooks, but this is a desktop.
> > gpm screen opens OK, but immediately after trying to move sliders system goes to hard freeze,
> > must reboot. This is a fresh install. Able to edit screen blank/sleep options with gconf which worked OK.
> > System: Zotac GF9300-A-E (nvidia 730i/9300) integrated graphics
> >
> > The following is from another poster with the same motherboard chipset:
> >
> > ----System: Asus P5N7A-VM (nvidia 730i/9300) integrated graphics motherboard.
> >
> > ubuntu 9.04 + nvidia 180 driver
> > Opening power management from the system -> preferences menu causes the computer to hang 100% of the time. The mouse pointer moves, but nothing is selectable and the computer has to be reset via the power switch.
> >
> > ubuntu 9.04 + nvidia 173 driver
> > Power management will open but appears as a completely blank window. Minimising & reopening a few times gets the sleep time slider bars to appear, but nothing appears to work. However dragging the sliders with the mouse does change the setting - it just isn't visible until you minimise and reopen the window again. N.B. The 173 graphics driver is no good for me, lots of corruption and web pages don't show properly
> >
> > ubuntu 8.10 + nvidia 177 driver
> > Opening power management causes a system freeze and the sliders don't work, or the window appears blank----
> >
> > ProblemType: Bug
> > ACAdapter: Not Present
> > Architecture: i386
> > Battery: Not Present
> > CPUScaling: Present
> > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager
> > LaptopPanel: Not Present
> > Lsusb:
> > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> > MachineType: NVIDIA MCP7A
> > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> > Package: gnome-power-manager 2.24.2-2ubuntu8
> > ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=7cfbe1fa-72c5-40fb-baac-b6f5524cefdd ro quiet splash
> > ProcEnviron:
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
> > SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
> >
>
> --
> power manager crash
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377370
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
>
> Ubuntu 9.04 32
> gnome-power-manager
>
> I know most reports of this nature concern notebooks, but this is a desktop.
> gpm screen opens OK, but immediately after trying to move sliders system goes to hard freeze,
> must reboot. This is a fresh install. Able to edit screen blank/sleep options with gconf which worked OK.
> System: Zotac GF9300-A-E (nvidia 730i/9300) integrated graphics
>
> The following is from another poster with the same motherboard chipset:
>
> ----System: Asus P5N7A-VM (nvidia 730i/9300) integrated graphics motherboard.
>
> ubuntu 9.04 + nvidia 180 driver
> Opening power management from the system -> preferences menu causes the computer to hang 100% of the time. The mouse pointer moves, but nothing is selectable and the computer has to be reset via the power switch.
>
> ubuntu 9.04 + nvidia 173 driver
> Power management will open but appears as a completely blank window. Minimising & reopening a few times gets the sleep time slider bars to appear, but nothing appears to work. However dragging the sliders with the mouse does change the setting - it just isn't visible until you minimise and reopen the window again. N.B. The 173 graphics driver is no good for me, lots of corruption and web pages don't show properly
>
> ubuntu 8.10 + nvidia 177 driver
> Opening power management causes a system freeze and the sliders don't work, or the window appears blank----
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> ACAdapter: Not Present
> Architecture: i386
> Battery: Not Present
> CPUScaling: Present
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager
> LaptopPanel: Not Present
> Lsusb:
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> MachineType: NVIDIA MCP7A
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-power-manager 2.24.2-2ubuntu8
> ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=7cfbe1fa-72c5-40fb-baac-b6f5524cefdd ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager