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Upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy not so smooth and udevd 100% cpu usage

Wednesday, 24 de October del 2007
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I upgraded my dell computer at work from Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy, but I have to say that this time the upgrade went far less smoother than previous ones. The process halted the computer at some point in time, I had to start it up again, and in the end I lost all my compiz - beryl configurations (3d desktop, effects), which I have not been able to recover by now.

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I don't see nothing new fancy in Gutsy for now, and another negative side effect is that I've had to switch from the XFCE desktop to Gnome, and deactivate the 3d effects (GL Desktop) as it is impossible to change the 2 virtual desktops preference. I am so found on 4 virtual desktops (shells, gvim, internet, other) that cannot cope with this bug/limitation.

The worst thing came when the computer booted in the shinny Ubuntu Gutsy with a 100% cpu consumption, regardless the desktop I chose. Further investigation showed that 'udevd' was goggling up the cpu time, and looking in /var/log showed it was also busy writing to a log file.

Googling took me to a lwn.net page with a note about evms/udevd not getting along very well in Gusty.

So ...

  • apt-get remove evms
  • /etc/init.d/udevd stop
  • /etc/init.d/udevd start
  • 1 Problem fixed :) 

Let's hope to see some updates and fixes, 'cause I want my good old XFCE back! I keep wondering what are the benefits of Ubuntu Gutsy over Feisty, any help?

Update: the update has broken vmware as usual. You have to download vmware any-to-any (versions 113 and up), untar it and run ./runme.pl. If you have compile errors, try to install g++: apt-get install g++

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Anton Anton
I too had the evms problem on one machine.

The beryl project appears to have been merged with compiz and the new bastard child is called compiz-fusion.

If you apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager you should again be able to set all your 3D preferences from System, Preferences, Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. Yes, that last one is a 4 word option, probably to match the extra long package name.

I'm not terribly impressed with the latest upgrade. Doesn't seem to be enough improvement over Feisty to bother unless you want gimp 2.4, pidgin, and compiz-fusion...
#1 24.10.2007 on 23:57
maguilar maguilar
Yes, I had compizconfig-settings-manager already installed, but the changes I made to the virtual desktops configuration did not propagate to XFCE nor Gnome. I have deactivated GL Desktop and the only thing I really miss is the font smoothing of compiz which I find more polished than the normal desktop.

Thanks for the tip anyways :-)

I have yet to find an enhancement over Feisty, other than keeping up with the pace of changes of the opensource community.
#2 25.10.2007 on 08:24
alombarte alombarte
Just to mention, the upgrade cannot be done completely unattended as it would be expected.

After all the packages were downloaded the system interrupted the process 20 or more times just to make me press OK (no decision taking needed).

That delayed a 4-5 hours upgrade to a 1 day and a half, because I never use to waste my time following a progress bar.
#3 25.10.2007 on 09:32
John Heklin John Heklin
if you install the compiz setting manager from synaptic then you can configure all the effects including the number of desktops. Also did you have compiz on your feisty? if you didnt maybe your hardware is not supported yet.
#4 27.11.2007 on 18:35
maguilar maguilar
Yes, it was installed by default. Anyways, I feel very comfortable without the 3d desktop, the computer just feels snappier in any way.

Thanks for the advice, John!
#5 27.11.2007 on 21:41

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