Activity log for bug #952556

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2012-03-11 21:36:15 Swâmi Petaramesh bug added bug
2012-03-11 21:36:41 Swâmi Petaramesh visibility private public
2012-03-11 22:00:13 Brad Figg linux (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2012-03-11 22:01:35 Brad Figg linux (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2012-03-11 22:01:38 Brad Figg tags apport-bug i386 precise apport-bug i386 kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise
2012-03-12 05:58:07 Swâmi Petaramesh linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Confirmed
2012-03-12 05:59:06 Swâmi Petaramesh tags apport-bug i386 kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise
2012-03-12 19:34:20 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Medium
2012-03-12 19:34:40 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu): importance Medium High
2012-03-12 19:34:53 Joseph Salisbury tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise
2012-03-12 19:36:42 Joseph Salisbury tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-key kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise
2012-03-13 06:07:47 Swâmi Petaramesh affects linux (Ubuntu) powermgmt-base (Ubuntu)
2012-03-13 06:08:34 Swâmi Petaramesh tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-key kernel-request-3.2.0-18.29 precise apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 precise
2012-03-17 08:35:15 Swâmi Petaramesh affects powermgmt-base (Ubuntu) ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
2012-03-19 14:55:26 Joseph Salisbury affects ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) linux (Ubuntu)
2012-03-19 16:11:32 Colin Ian King linux (Ubuntu): assignee Colin King (colin-king)
2012-03-20 14:40:53 Joseph Salisbury tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 precise apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-key precise
2012-03-20 14:41:00 Joseph Salisbury tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-key precise apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-key precise
2012-03-20 15:21:48 Swâmi Petaramesh attachment added power-usage-report output taken from my EeePC 1005PE https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/952556/+attachment/2904235/+files/report.log
2012-03-20 16:11:33 Colin Ian King affects linux (Ubuntu) hdparm (Ubuntu)
2012-03-20 16:11:33 Colin Ian King hdparm (Ubuntu): milestone ubuntu-12.04-beta-2
2012-03-20 16:11:33 Colin Ian King hdparm (Ubuntu): assignee Colin King (colin-king)
2012-03-20 16:43:28 Marc Deslauriers hdparm (Ubuntu): assignee Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
2012-03-23 07:45:20 Martin Pitt bug added subscriber Martin Pitt
2012-03-24 09:59:17 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/hdparm
2012-03-24 10:03:21 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu): status Confirmed In Progress
2012-03-24 10:03:22 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu): assignee Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) Steve Langasek (vorlon)
2012-03-24 10:07:32 Steve Langasek security vulnerability yes no
2012-03-24 12:40:16 Launchpad Janitor hdparm (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Released
2012-03-24 21:04:25 Colin Ian King attachment added hdparm spindown time analysis https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/952556/+attachment/2930971/+files/hdparm-spin-time-analysis.ods
2012-03-27 07:17:26 Swâmi Petaramesh hdparm (Ubuntu): status Fix Released Confirmed
2012-03-27 09:20:06 V_F bug added subscriber V_F
2012-03-29 23:58:37 Kate Stewart hdparm (Ubuntu): milestone ubuntu-12.04-beta-2 ubuntu-12.04
2012-03-29 23:58:52 Kate Stewart tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-key precise apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-key precise rls-mgr-p-tracking
2012-04-01 13:55:40 Andrzej Kłapeć bug added subscriber SolidSlash
2012-04-03 13:54:52 Joseph Salisbury tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key kernel-key precise rls-mgr-p-tracking apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key precise rls-mgr-p-tracking
2012-04-22 01:10:10 Gu Ye bug added subscriber Gu Ye
2012-04-23 02:46:09 sanmiguel9 bug added subscriber sanmiguel9
2012-04-23 20:33:16 Jamie Strandboge removed subscriber Ubuntu Security Team
2012-04-24 13:11:16 Julian Olivien bug added subscriber Julian Olivien
2012-04-24 19:27:44 James Adney bug added subscriber James Adney
2012-04-25 08:56:27 Julian Olivien attachment added "hdparm -I" output https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hdparm/+bug/952556/+attachment/3103196/+files/hdparminfo.txt
2012-04-27 19:47:05 Christian Bäumler bug added subscriber Christian Bäumler
2012-04-27 22:42:48 pavel bug added subscriber pavel
2012-04-29 03:26:26 Daniel Manrique bug added subscriber Daniel Manrique
2012-05-01 06:05:13 Steve Langasek nominated for series Ubuntu Precise
2012-05-01 06:05:13 Steve Langasek bug task added hdparm (Ubuntu Precise)
2012-05-01 06:05:13 Steve Langasek nominated for series Ubuntu Quantal
2012-05-01 06:05:13 Steve Langasek bug task added hdparm (Ubuntu Quantal)
2012-05-01 06:05:20 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/hdparm
2012-05-01 06:05:25 Launchpad Janitor hdparm (Ubuntu Quantal): status Confirmed Fix Released
2012-05-01 06:06:08 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): status New In Progress
2012-05-01 06:06:10 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): importance Undecided High
2012-05-01 06:06:12 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): assignee Steve Langasek (vorlon)
2012-05-01 06:06:14 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): milestone ubuntu-12.04.1
2012-05-01 06:06:17 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Quantal): milestone ubuntu-12.04
2012-05-01 06:06:20 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Quantal): status Fix Released In Progress
2012-05-01 06:18:46 Steve Langasek description Hi, After update from Oneiric to Precise Beta 1, kernel 3.2.0-18-generic, I notice that, when on battery, my Dell XPS M1330 laptop has its HD spin down, then restart, very, very, very often, which means several times per minute. At this pace the HD won't live long, and this reminds to me a problem we had few years ago with "disk killers" linuxes that were unloading/reloading the HD heads much too often, killing disks in a couple of months. So I prefer to ring the alarm bell early... Upgrading from Oneiric to Precise I didn't change any power management parameter, but it definitely didn't do this before (and still doesn't do this on other distros I have on multiboot, so that's no hardware issue, only Precise does that on my machine...) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: linux-image-3.2.0-18-generic 3.2.0-18.28 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic i686 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: michel 3044 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: country FR: (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20) (5170 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 20) (5250 - 5330 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS (5490 - 5710 @ 40), (N/A, 27), DFS Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6dfc000 irq 46' Mixer name : 'Silicon Image SiI1392 HDMI' Components : 'HDA:83847616,1028020a,00100201 HDA:10951392,1028020a,00100000' Controls : 33 Simple ctrls : 19 CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Sun Mar 11 22:25:00 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=0e7ded16-c4fc-4f81-8562-3cb1196809d3 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-18-generic root=/dev/mapper/VG1-UBUNTU ro clocksource=hpet quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-18-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-18-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.71 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-10 (1 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A15 dmi.board.name: 0N6705 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0N6705:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: XPS M1330 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. [Impact] This issue has the potential to cause additional mechanical wear and tear on rotational hard drives by causing them to spin up and down more frequently than in previous Ubuntu releases. While the intent of a development change in the precise cycle was to allow drives to spin down sooner and stay spun down, in practice users report their drives spin back up quickly. Until this is resolved, an aggressive spin-down policy is dangerous for hardware and inappropriate. [Test Case] 1. On a laptop with a rotational hard drive, unplug main power and run on battery. 2. Run sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda|grep Load_Cycle_Count repeatedly, to observe that the count increases once every few seconds. 3. Install hdparm from precise-proposed. 4. Plug the laptop back into main power, then unplug it again. 5. Run the command from step 2 again. Observe that the count is no longer increasing or is increasing much more slowly. (Note that the precise behavior will vary from hard drive to hard drive, and on some systems there will be no difference visible at all.) [Regression Potential] For some users the current setting does not meaningfully increase wear and tear on their drives, but changing it will increase power consumption. This seems to be a necessary evil since there's no single power saving setting that works well for all drives. Hi, After update from Oneiric to Precise Beta 1, kernel 3.2.0-18-generic, I notice that, when on battery, my Dell XPS M1330 laptop has its HD spin down, then restart, very, very, very often, which means several times per minute. At this pace the HD won't live long, and this reminds to me a problem we had few years ago with "disk killers" linuxes that were unloading/reloading the HD heads much too often, killing disks in a couple of months. So I prefer to ring the alarm bell early... Upgrading from Oneiric to Precise I didn't change any power management parameter, but it definitely didn't do this before (and still doesn't do this on other distros I have on multiboot, so that's no hardware issue, only Precise does that on my machine...) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: linux-image-3.2.0-18-generic 3.2.0-18.28 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic i686 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse:  USER PID ACCESS COMMAND  /dev/snd/controlC0: michel 3044 F.... pulseaudio CRDA:  country FR:   (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)   (5170 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 20)   (5250 - 5330 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS   (5490 - 5710 @ 40), (N/A, 27), DFS Card0.Amixer.info:  Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6dfc000 irq 46'    Mixer name : 'Silicon Image SiI1392 HDMI'    Components : 'HDA:83847616,1028020a,00100201 HDA:10951392,1028020a,00100000'    Controls : 33    Simple ctrls : 19 CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Sun Mar 11 22:25:00 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=0e7ded16-c4fc-4f81-8562-3cb1196809d3 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1330 ProcEnviron:  LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en  TERM=xterm  PATH=(custom, user)  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8  SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-18-generic root=/dev/mapper/VG1-UBUNTU ro clocksource=hpet quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions:  linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-18-generic N/A  linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-18-generic N/A  linux-firmware 1.71 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-10 (1 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/26/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A15 dmi.board.name: 0N6705 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd12/26/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1330:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0N6705:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: XPS M1330 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
2012-05-01 06:33:15 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Quantal): status In Progress Fix Released
2012-05-02 08:44:07 Martin Pitt hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): status In Progress Fix Committed
2012-05-02 08:44:09 Martin Pitt bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2012-05-02 08:44:10 Martin Pitt bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2012-05-02 08:44:16 Martin Pitt tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key precise rls-mgr-p-tracking apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key precise rls-mgr-p-tracking verification-needed
2012-05-02 18:55:04 hmarton hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2012-05-02 19:15:43 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): status Fix Released Fix Committed
2012-05-02 21:47:45 Steve Langasek tags apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key precise rls-mgr-p-tracking verification-needed apport-bug bot-stop-nagging i386 kernel-da-key precise rls-mgr-p-tracking verification-done
2012-05-03 15:05:33 Neil Price bug added subscriber Neil Price
2012-05-06 06:13:18 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/precise-proposed/hdparm
2012-05-08 04:17:29 Dagnachew L. hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2012-05-08 06:02:17 Steve Langasek hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): status Fix Released Fix Committed
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2012-05-10 23:58:12 Launchpad Janitor hdparm (Ubuntu Precise): status Fix Committed Fix Released
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