[Bug 1750937] Re: 4.4.0-116 Kernel update on 2/21 breaks Nvidia drivers (on 14.04 and 16.04) by an insufficient compiler!

2018-03-03 Thread John Sopko
I manage 300+ machines that run openafs that has a dkms built kernel module like the nvidia module that needs to be built. I also manage dozens of nvidia gpu servers where users have sudo access and can install anything they want. Here is a snippet of what I found. Note this is for 16.04 systems bu

[Bug 1550481] Re: hpsa driver causing kernel panics on HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8

2016-12-08 Thread John Sopko
We recently inherited several Proliant HP-SL270s Gen 8 with P420 raid controller. Loading 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-31 I cannot see the logical disk, I disabled Intel Vt-d (same as IOMMU) and this did not fix. There was a similar bug that expired where disabling IOMMU allowed the disks to be seen on

[Bug 1577596] Re: ntpd not started when using ntpdate

2016-07-01 Thread John Sopko
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1575572 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575572 Another observation, the ntpdate command is really slow on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04. On average it takes about 6.1 seconds to run the ntpdate command, I am running ntpdate after boot. Our Red hat 6.8 machines

[Bug 1577596] Re: ntpd not started when using ntpdate

2016-06-30 Thread John Sopko
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1575572 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575572 I am seeing this on some but not all systems. I can only manually start after first doing a stop: root@tophat:~# ps -ef | grep ntp root 2380 2365 0 11:51 pts/800:00:00 grep --color=auto ntp root@

[Bug 1558196] Re: ypbind not able to socket activate rpcbind under systemd, fails at boot unless something else starts rpcbind

2016-05-02 Thread John Sopko
Does your /etc/nsswitch.conf have: group: files nis ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558196 Title: ypbind not able to socket activate rpcbind under systemd, fails at boot un

[Bug 1558196] Re: ypbind not able to socket activate rpcbind under systemd, fails at boot unless something else starts rpcbind

2016-03-21 Thread John Sopko
Doing this forces rpcbind to start on boot and then nis starts correctly: # /bin/systemctl add-wants multi-user.target rpcbind.service Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rpcbind.service to /lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.service -- You received this bug notification b

[Bug 1558196] Re: rpcbind does not start on boot under systemd

2016-03-19 Thread John Sopko
I re-installed the lasted 16.04 beta. Be default the rpc-statd service is not enabled, I enabled and rebooted, same problem rpcbind does not start and neither does the nis service. If I manualy start with systemctl start rpc-statd then rpcbind and rpcbind.statd start. If I systemctl start nis it do

[Bug 1558196] Re: rpcbind does not start on boot under systemd

2016-03-19 Thread John Sopko
We use nis ybind which is started out of /etc/init.d/nis which fails because rpcbind is not running. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558196 Title: rpcbind does not start on boot unde

[Bug 1558196] [NEW] rpcbind does not start on boot under systemd

2016-03-19 Thread John Sopko
Public bug reported: did apt-get update/upgrade March 16, 2016 Description:Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) Release:16.04 rpcbind does not start on boot, tried various systemd debugging steps with no clues. After boot systemctl start rpcbind works. There is a /etc/init.d/rp

[Bug 1558196] Re: rpcbind does not start on boot under systemd

2016-03-19 Thread John Sopko
Meant to type "ypbind", so I installed nfs-kernel-server and now rpcbind and ypbind start. Hate to install nfs-kernel-server on all our desktops and servers that do not need it but they do need ypbind. Thanks for your help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1558196] Re: rpcbind does not start on boot under systemd

2016-03-18 Thread John Sopko
We are on the right track, I have tried so many things I need to reload the system to reset the default config for everything. Our 14.04 systems run rpc.statd but not all the other nfs stuff. So maybe enabling that service will be a work around, that is it will cause rpcbind to start. I will need

[Bug 1558196] Re: ypbind not able to socket activate rpcbind under systemd, fails at boot unless something else starts rpcbind

2016-03-18 Thread John Sopko
IMHO if the rpcbind service is enabled it should just start at boot time and not have to be self activated. Found this but no real good solution. "Regression: rpcbind doesn't start at boottime on systemd controlled machines." https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805167 ** Bug watch

[Bug 1558196] Re: rpcbind does not start on boot under systemd

2016-03-18 Thread John Sopko
rpcbind.socket is active, nis fails to start because it cannot contact the rpcbind server so I guess it is not using the socket to communicate. Reading the ypbind and ypbind.conf man pages does not have any info or options on registering with rpcbind. root@tophat:~# systemctl status rpcbind.socke

[Bug 1316035] Re: matrox g200eR2 is unclaimed in 14.04

2015-04-02 Thread John Sopko
I did an online chat with Dell to see if they new anything about this and they could not help. Here was there response: "Ok. Well, I had them review the article and they see many vendors having the same issue. We don't have any updates / patches for the Matrox graphics card for this kind of issue.

[Bug 1316035] Re: matrox g200eR2 is unclaimed in 14.04

2015-04-01 Thread John Sopko
Still the same issue on 2 new Dell T630 servers Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. % lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release:14.04 Codename: trusty % lspci | grep VGA 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems

[Bug 993259] Re: ypbind does not start on boot

2012-05-18 Thread John Sopko
This may help if you have this issue with ypbind trying to start and the network not up yet: Use IP addreses in /etc/yp.conf for example: domain your_nis_domain server 10.10.123.123 If the network is not up, ypbind starts and cannot reslove the hostname in yp.conf and dies. If you supply an IP

[Bug 867806] Re: df -h permission denied error

2012-05-08 Thread John Sopko
Another observation. When no one is logged in and /var/lib/lightdm is mounted the directory permissions do not allow other access: % ls -ld /var/lib/lightdm drwxr-x--- 9 lightdm lightdm 4096 May 6 09:50 /var/lib/lightdm If someone is logged into the desktop gui the gvfs directory permissions are

[Bug 867806] Re: df -h permission denied error

2012-05-08 Thread John Sopko
If someone is logged into the desktop, gvfs mounts in there home dir, and df works if you ssh login as another user and do a df. The problem I am seeing is when no one is logged in and /var/lib/lightdm/.gvfs is mounted. For example: No one logged into the desktop: $ df df: `/var/lib/lightdm/.gvf

[Bug 867806] Re: df -h permission denied error

2012-05-08 Thread John Sopko
I am seeing this in precise 12.04, latest patches, some machines have the issue, others do not: % lsb_release -dcr Description:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release:12.04 Codename: precise % df -hl df: `/var/lib/lightdm/.gvfs': Permission denied Filesystem Size Used Avail Us

[Bug 993259] Re: ypbind does not start on boot

2012-05-08 Thread John Sopko
The problem is with NetworkManager. If the system boots with ifup and DHCP ypbind starts fine. That is uncomment the iface etho line in /etc/network/interfaces and make sure the following entry is in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf so that NetworkManager does not control the interface:

[Bug 993259] Re: ypbind does not start on boot

2012-05-06 Thread John Sopko
So the network is taking a really long time to come up using DHCP. I found that the entry in /etc/network/interfaces had the iface eth0 inet dhcp entry commented out as shown below. If I un-comment the "iface etho inet dhcp" entry things work, the network comes up fast and ypbind starts. It appe

[Bug 993259] Re: ypbind does not start on boot

2012-05-04 Thread John Sopko
I confirmed this bug on 4 systems. Here is the output from /var/log/upstart/ypbind.log: Setting NIS domainname to: sunrize No NIS server and no -broadcast option specified. Add a NIS server to the /etc/yp.conf configuration file, or start ypbind with the -broadcast option. Binding to YP server ...

[Bug 993259] Re: ypbind does not start on boot

2012-05-02 Thread John Sopko
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[Bug 993259] [NEW] ypbind does not start on boot

2012-05-02 Thread John Sopko
Public bug reported: root@tophat:/tmp# lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release:12.04 root@tophat:/var/tmp# apt-cache policy nis nis: Installed: 3.17-32ubuntu4 Candidate: 3.17-32ubuntu4 Version table: *** 3.17-32ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubu

[Bug 760887] Re: Unable to network install on natty

2011-08-12 Thread John Sopko
Had the same problem on a Dell 2650 Server and a Dell workstations both with a Broadcom ethernet chip. Very annoying, works with 10.04 but not 11.04. I manually added the IP several times to keep the install going I do not understand the fix mentioned by Sandor. Below are the 2 network cards and