Re: [Hampshire] Laptop & hard disk worry

Auteur: Alan Pope
Date: 2007-10-31 03:38 -000
À: johnrhunt, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
CC:
Sujet: Re: [Hampshire] Laptop & hard disk worry

gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x57587100.hantslug.org.uk.21401': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: verify signatures failed: Unknown system error

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:16 +1100, John Hunt wrote:
> https://launchpad.net/bug59695.html
>
> Rather worrying. If you're using Ubuntu on your laptop, well worth a
> read.

This has been all over planet ubuntu for about a week or so. Slashdot
is quite behind on this topic.

"The situation is somewhat less clear than you might think from the
article, but the basic takeaway message is that Ubuntu doesn't touch
your hard drive power management settings by default."

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77672.html

http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug/
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-is-worse-than-i-thought/ http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-how-to-discover-whether-you-are-affected/
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/laptop-hardrive-killer-bug-should-get-critical-status/

Then..

http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/ubuntu-is-not-causing-aggressive-power-management/

Note the _NOT_ in that.

Cheers,
Al.