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Comment 19 for bug 1547793

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A. Richard Miller (themillers) wrote on 2016-02-23: Re: [Bug 1547793] Re: upowerd crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_is_trusted()

#19

Hi, Martin:

Not fixed - but some progress, thanks. Excuse the approximate
description; I abandoned the test results and rebooted into Ubuntu
15.10 to write to you, so I'm writing from memory.

I downloaded the daily-live of xenial-desktop-amd64.iso about 10AM
-0500, confirmed with sha256sum, and burned it to a USB flash drive.

Booting from that USB drive seems to work well, but still lacks the
Ubuntu Software Center.Attempting an Ubuntu 16.04 install to hard disk
(actually, a SSD) failed, but more nicely than yesterday; now it starts
to install a new icon low in the Launcher, but then removes it and
simply stops the install while continuing to behave smoothly as before.
No hang and no error message, but no install, either.

Exploring further,I opened the Gnome Software Center and saw, in
System>Other, a Gnome system installer that wouldn't install. I found a
lot of Update files; after updating (but not restarting; how can I,
running as a Live USB, while keeping those changes?), it seemed neither
better nor worse.

About six hours later now, I've checked and see no newer version.
Perhaps tomorrow's daily will be better.

Martin, one more thought, and it may be useful: A few days ago, my wife
Jill points out, we tried the daily-live on two older PC /desktop/
computers here - one pre-UEFI, one not. And we just repeated those tests
now. The pre-UEFI desktop did not detect the Live USB, then or now. The
UEFI desktop did and does detect; upon loading Ubuntu 16.04, it does not
close out the Shortcut Keys window by clicking outside of it OR by
clicking its X icon, but clicking the System Settings icon in the upper
right did close it. From there on, all proceeded well until we attempted
an Ubuntu installation. The other day, that failed and we think it
failed just like the "battery-in" problem we've been discussing-
although no battery was involved! (Hmm. Is this the first you've heard
of THAT?) Today, that same Ubuntu installation (but using today's
daily-live) works fine! That is, we abandoned it upon reaching
partitioning (for the first time in a week), but see no reason it would
not have worked.

On 02/23/2016 02:18 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Do you still get the crash?
>

Hi, Martin:

Not fixed - but some progress, thanks. Excuse the approximate 
description; I  abandoned the test results and rebooted into Ubuntu 
15.10 to write to you, so I'm writing from memory.

I downloaded the daily-live of xenial-desktop-amd64.iso about 10AM 
-0500, confirmed with sha256sum, and burned it to a USB flash drive.

Booting from that USB drive seems to work well, but still lacks the 
Ubuntu Software Center.Attempting an Ubuntu 16.04 install to hard disk 
(actually, a SSD) failed, but more nicely than yesterday; now it starts 
to install a new icon low in the Launcher, but then  removes it and 
simply stops the install while continuing to behave smoothly as before. 
No hang and no error message, but no install, either.

Exploring further,I opened the Gnome Software Center and saw, in 
System>Other, a Gnome system installer that wouldn't install. I found a 
lot of Update files; after updating (but not restarting; how can I, 
running as a Live USB, while keeping those changes?), it seemed neither 
better nor worse.

About six hours later now, I've checked and see no newer version. 
Perhaps tomorrow's daily will be better.

Martin, one more thought, and it may be useful: A few days ago, my wife 
Jill points out, we tried the daily-live on two older PC /desktop/ 
computers here - one pre-UEFI, one not. And we just repeated those tests 
now. The pre-UEFI desktop did not detect the Live USB, then or now. The 
UEFI desktop did and does detect; upon loading Ubuntu 16.04, it does not 
close out the Shortcut Keys window by clicking outside of it OR by 
clicking its X icon, but clicking the System Settings icon in the upper 
right did close it. From there on, all proceeded well until we attempted 
an Ubuntu installation. The other day, that failed and we think it 
failed just like the "battery-in" problem we've been discussing- 
although no battery was involved! (Hmm. Is this the first you've heard 
of THAT?) Today, that same Ubuntu installation (but using today's 
daily-live) works fine! That is, we abandoned it upon reaching 
partitioning (for the first time in a week), but see no reason it would 
not have worked.

On 02/23/2016 02:18 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Do you still get the crash?
>

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