Alistair Buxton

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Mar 13	accepted	Why does emptying the rubbish bin in nautilus take so long?
Mar 8	asked	Why does emptying the rubbish bin in nautilus take so long?
Feb 19	comment	Why am I frequently getting this “Cannot allocate memory” error? Killing the panel will for sure free up the memory no matter what was causing it. Weather applet is high on the list of suspects. xsesion-errors also suggests a problem with update-manager (perhaps it's indicator icon). The weather isn't really part of the same applet as the other stuff, it's just that all indicators are grouped into a single indicator-applet. It sounds like you've removed that - you probably want it back at some point. This is a good way to test anyway. If the problem stops happening we've narrowed it down to an indicator at least.
Feb 18	comment	Why am I frequently getting this “Cannot allocate memory” error? I think you are right that system monitor is not the problem. I have left it running on max refresh speed overnight and not seen any increase in memory usage. I see you have indicator-weather installed. For me that applet is very buggy indeed. It crashes several times per day here. Also note that there can be logs in your homedir eg ~/.xsession-errors (which would be worth looking at, along with dmesg, when the problem happens again.)
Feb 17	comment	Why am I frequently getting this “Cannot allocate memory” error? System monitor is non-standard, in that it isn't on the panel by default. I couldn't reproduce any memory leak with a standard setup so I will focus on that.
Feb 17	comment	Why am I frequently getting this “Cannot allocate memory” error? Although it looks like gnome-panel has allocated an unusual amount of memory, I don't think this is the direct cause of the problem - you still have plenty of swap free and even some memory used for cache. Some other resource must be exhausted, and the high memory use is just the memory used by allocating that resource. Most likely too many open files or too many child processes. Could also be a full disk caused by out of control error logging.
Feb 17	comment	Why am I frequently getting this “Cannot allocate memory” error? Are you using any non-default applets? Also, how often do you update? Last change on gnome-panel was 4 months ago.
Feb 17	comment	Why am I frequently getting this “Cannot allocate memory” error? You didn't mention what version of Ubuntu?
Feb 10	comment	How to identify the module supposed to claim a device by vendor/product ID only? There isn't really an easy way to get this information. Not all USB devices are claimed based on their IDs. Class based devices (storage, HID, and many serial and networking devices) are identified based on what interface they provide.
Feb 6	awarded	Caucus
Jan 23	comment	How do I submit a full bug report with crash dump and steps to reproduce? I don't have the crash file any more, plus posting how to reproduce it was the whole point :)
Jan 21	comment	How do I submit a full bug report with crash dump and steps to reproduce? Great answer :) - unfortunately I forgot how to reproduce the bug but I'm sure this will come up again at some point.
Jan 21	accepted	How do I submit a full bug report with crash dump and steps to reproduce?
Jan 17	comment	Cannot authenticate without a password That's the "automatic login" option. "Login without a password" is different.
Jan 14	comment	Is it possible for Conky to display Time in words and not in numbers? This wouldn't even work anyway for numbers greater than nine.
Jan 12	comment	How to get telnet to localhost working? If you just want to host a MUD, do it old-school. Grab the envymud source code and build it. I would be happy to help you do this - it's entirely self contained and does not require PHP, database servers, web server, or any of that jazz.
Jan 9	comment	How to get telnet to localhost working? MUD server usually does not use telnetd. It runs as a service on a different port.
Dec 16	comment	Installation wizard stuck This is a bug: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1081632
Dec 16	comment	indicator-datetime problem Do you still have the other indicators like messaging, session, etc?
Dec 14	comment	Is it possible to work on the same region as a locoteam but not IN the locoteam I don't see how or why anyone would stop you. As for creating another loco, if it was a 100% overlap with an existing team I doubt you would receive approval unless there was a good reason, eg existing loco is completely inactive.