From Bug #950645, here’s one somewhat reliable way to trigger this: after login, have some windows open (I have Chromium, Gnome Terminal and Transmission set to start on login, don’t know if this works if you start them manually), then use the workspace switcher. This causes the launcher to stick (i.e. autohide to fail). Interestingly, if I then killall unity-2d-shell, even this recipe then fails to trigger the issue until the next login. But it seems 100% reproducible right after login. (I’m just hoping that #950645 really is a duplicate of this one. For me the trigger’s always been something else in the launcher since I almost never use the workspace switcher.)
I’m feeling unimaginative so I’ll cheat and just answer those here without posting new ones.
1. My island would probably be Greenland, so ”between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans”.
2. Not doing anything currently but will be learning and doing programming about a week from now.
3. Nope.
4. Nope.
5. Some code for my blog. If programming doesn’t count… must’ve been the amplifier we built back in uni. Didn’t do it all by myself, we did it in teams.
6. I never sleep with the light on, but have to tolerate blue from LEDs from my cell phone charger and sometimes my computer (if I leave it on). It’s kinda nerdy so maybe I’d go with it.
7. Amsterdam.
8. In the forest, on its roots, with natural snow on it.
9. I know the parts I’ve explored pretty well, but there are lots of places I still haven’t here.
10. I like to code. (We’ll see how this answer holds up once it becomes a job.)
11. I would’ve wished for my parents to be able to resolve the problems between them.
Alright, I think this is safe to rule as invalid because the cause is most likely hardware failure: Oneiric boot media now also fails to boot here despite being the one used to install this system initially. I even went so far back as installing Jaunty (didn’t have anything more recent at hand, before Oneiric) and it also segfaults when X should start (though the graphical installer did work). I’ll still do tests if @Joseph disagrees (and has new ideas to test), but for now I’ll just settle for using fbdev (which seems to not trigger the issue).
Se Marjo Jontunin novelihan oli tietysti Untako lienee on.
Mielenkiintoinen postaus, paleobiologian tutkimusuutisia lukisin täältä mielelläni enemmänkin!
@guarinex70 Is it a laptop? Unfortunately for laptops, the Flashrom project people recommend not to use flashrom, due to poor support. If it is a laptop and unless you have means to recover if something goes wrong, I suggest asking on the Flashrom mailing lists whether they think it’s safe. On the other hand, if I’m mistaken and it’s a regular desktop PC, you should be okay in my experience. I’ve flashed several desktop computers with flashrom without problems.
@guarinex70 Sorry I don’t speak Spanish, so I’m working with what Google Translate tells me you said. Yes, the flashrom parameter to write the ROM file is -w, the video title shows the exact command I typed in for the procedure. And yes, that’s revision 2101 of the BIOS going in. I downloaded it from ASUS’s site: look for the product page for your motherboard if you have an ASUS, and the Download section there. For this board they’ve since released revision 2102 which I haven’t tried.
This was a bizarre phenomenon, and apparently very local too: I witnessed it in Leppävaara, but here in Kirkkonummi it didn’t seem to have snowed at all during the day.
I initially posed this as Question #188982, but now decided to report it as it seems to persist and no definitive answers as to the cause were found. I was apprehensive about reporting at first mainly because this doesn’t seem to occur on my other (Precise-running) computers. It is however 100% reproducible on this one (i.e. the flood occurs on each creation of an Xorg log, though I don’t know what triggers individual lines).
My Xorg log is flooded with lines about reusing xkmfile:
jani@saegusa:~$ grep ”XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-” /var/log/Xorg.0.log | tail
[ 391.894] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.901] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.906] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.909] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.914] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.919] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.922] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.926] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.929] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
[ 391.933] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-5CBD5B10CEC815928ACEFB86BAB14051BA0C83FF.xkm
jani@saegusa:~$ grep ”XKB: reuse xkmfile /var/lib/xkb/server-” /var/log/Xorg.0.log | wc -l
1507
(Interestingly I now notice that the number of those lines seems to be constant: the above was copy+paste from terminal just now, and when I posed Question #188982 on 2012-02-27, the result was 1507 also.)
Just to add that all the icons in Elements panel, not just arrowheads, are expanded, unlike text that ignores Page zoom. Other icons, ugly as they appear when zoomed, do seem to function though.