[Bug 1860851] Re: blueman-applet crashed with UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8e in position 4: invalid start byte

2021-05-14 Thread Robert Hardy
This error was annoying. Something triggered it and the logs were not clear on what. I'm was file corruption somewhere. I had some old files in /home/myusername/.cache/blueman* I removed those and logged out and in. No more crash but it may not last. -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 1873514] Re: Ubuntu uses insecure FreeRDP version

2020-05-28 Thread Robert Hardy
Thanks. I deliberately wasn't going to use cairo instead of libswscale as I read it may cause performance issues for image scaling. I didn't test it so some testing is needed to see if it matters or is even used with guacamole. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 1873514] Re: Ubuntu uses insecure FreeRDP version

2020-05-28 Thread Robert Hardy
Thanks much appreciated. I've got a development build from the freerdp- daily PPA but it's pretty clear that the symbols still need appropriate mapping. The Debian build has some it for the 2.1.0 build they started. It's clearly some kind of backwards compatibility logic but I'm unclear on intent.

[Bug 1873514] Re: Ubuntu uses insecure FreeRDP version

2020-05-27 Thread Robert Hardy
FYI a Debian developer has started on freerdp 2.1.0, nothing is released as of yet. I took a look at all the symbols in that package and was taking the wrong approach so I didn't use my attempt. The freerdp-daily repository guys have also kindly packaged 2.1.1. -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 1873514] Re: Ubuntu uses insecure FreeRDP version

2020-05-22 Thread Robert Hardy
I suspect freerdp2 was derailed in politics much like the stalls and eventual removal of a package for guacamole-server. What is currently deployed in Ubuntu focal is a alpha development snapshot of freerdp2 2.0.0 which is buggy to the point of being unusable for Apache guacamole and has signifi

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-09 Thread Robert Hardy
For me initially I saw it when working with large office documents and when attempting to do certain 1080p A/V playback. When it really got bad I couldn't use a browser as it was happening all the time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-08 Thread Robert Hardy
Hmm so patches were effective for: i5-8250U Kaby Lake R i.e. Gen 8 i9-9880H and i3-8100 both Coffee Lake Gen 9 It's hard enough debugging this directly on hardware. Doing it in a VM isn't going to be helpful. Which CPU models are still failing with 5.3.0-52.46 or 5.3.0-52.46+lp1861395v1? -- You

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-08 Thread Robert Hardy
To be clear 5.3.0-51 did NOT include the backported patches. Proposed 5.3.0-52.46 had some and 5.3.0-52.46+lp1861395v1 had more. Out of curiosity could the people who are still having hangs on the 5.3.0-52.46 proposed or 5.3.0-52.46+lp1861395v1 kernel have different generations of CPUs? I've got

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-05 Thread Robert Hardy
I also had the issue on the 5.3.0-45 kernel but it happened once for 2 seconds every two days. It wasn't even noticeable unless you really looked for it. The 5.3 kernel series seems to be a total write off at this point. While it likely isn't allowed as a solution it might be less effort to back

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-03 Thread Robert Hardy
After it was pretty clear a stable kernel wasn't coming any time soon for 19.10 I gave up and took a dangerous leap. The only way I was going to get a 5.4 kernel was to move to 20.04. It was dangerous and I had to get there through a do-release-upgrade -d. Highly not recommended if you don't kno

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-02 Thread Robert Hardy
I got about another 4 hrs before I had a 2nd hard crash with 5.3.0-52. I once again could not shutdown or reboot and was forced to hit my reset button. What a mess Basically BT audio works until the connection stops. Pausing an audio stream encourages the BT audio to unpair. The Audio sink sti

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-02 Thread Robert Hardy
Here is the syslog content just before the hard crash on proposed 5.3.0-52 from which I could not reboot and finally had to hit my reset button. Please note this syslog extract contains a long string of UTF8 characters I had never seen before in a syslog just before the crash where I had to hit

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-02 Thread Robert Hardy
The lack of kernel stability here is really getting frustrating With recent kernels audio playback over HDMI has stopped working for me altogether. I'm getting zero traction resolving it. I get audio playback when I plug in a headset but short cables are preventing use of that. Longer ones o

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-01 Thread Robert Hardy
Just an FYI for those trying to figure out what the heck is going on. The fix related to this thread wasn't in 5.3.0-51.44. >From the changelog, which is hard to find, the fix was committed in >5.3.0-52.46 which is currently in eoan-proposed: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / reset

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-05-01 Thread Robert Hardy
I thought 5.3.0-48.41+lp1861395v1 fixed it for me. I haven't logged a hang for a very long time. Now out of the blue my audio stopped working altogether. I tried rebooting into 5.3.0-51.44 and I still don't have audio but I'm not hanging with that either. -- You received this bug notification b

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-04-23 Thread Robert Hardy
The test kernel 5.3.0-48.41+lp1861395v1 seems to be a major improvement! On 5.3.0-45.37 pauses still happened rarely i.e. a single 2 second pause every 15 hrs and I hadn't noticed them until I was watching the logs for them. 5.3.0-46 and later were pausing several times a minute and the system was

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-04-17 Thread Robert Hardy
I wanted the security patches in 5.3.0-46.38 so I tried updating to the kernel from proposed i.e. 5.3.0-47.39. Sadly hangs returned within a couple minutes of trying to use the kernel. # cat /sys/class/drm/card0/error | head -2 GPU HANG: ecode 9:0:0x, hang on rcs0 Kernel: 5.3.0-47-generic

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-04-17 Thread Robert Hardy
For what it is worth I just downgraded my kernel to 5.3.0-45.37 and I haven't had a hang since: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/5.3.0-45.37 Not clear at all from the change log as to what brought this on in 5.3.0-46.38: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/5.3.0-46.38 -- You re

[Bug 1872001] Re: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0

2020-04-17 Thread Robert Hardy
I just started having this issue on Ubuntu 19.10 w/ 5.3.0-46-generic. What a mess... My system is an Asrock Z370M-ITXax with an Intel i3-8100. sudo cat /sys/class/drm/card0/error GPU HANG: ecode 9:0:0x, hang on rcs0 Kernel: 5.3.0-46-generic x86_64 As if all my Intel NIC problems weren't

[Bug 1785171] Re: Intel I219-V Ethernet Interface on Ubuntu Linux Using e1000e Driver keeps Dropping Internet Connection

2020-04-07 Thread Robert Hardy
FYI in terms of sustainable options I was able to find a very hard to find .deb with the latest driver as a DKMS module. It works fine for me on Ubuntu 19.10. I really wish this was in a repository which was part of universe but I'm never figured out how to do things like that. # dpkg -l | grep e1

[Bug 1785171] Re: Intel I219-V Ethernet Interface on Ubuntu Linux Using e1000e Driver keeps Dropping Internet Connection

2020-04-07 Thread Robert Hardy
FYI a kernel bisection may be outside the skill set of your average user and chances are much lower without detailed instructions. Please don't shoot the messenger. I too have a Asrock motherboard but a ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac. I had a lot off trouble getting my I219-V NICs to behave on Ubuntu. I sta

[Bug 1763648] Re: [needs-packaging] nvidia-304 (304.137) missing in Ubuntu 18.04

2019-02-06 Thread Robert Hardy
This is truly sad when a vendor that built it's business on having good drivers has fallen so far to deprecate a perfectly good workstation/server grade video card in my server because they won't release updates. I really need this fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 736743] Re: environment block not implemented on btrfs

2018-06-20 Thread Robert Hardy
This same issue bit me using 18.04. I think this should really be reclassified as an installer bug. Ubuntu has known for many releases that a single btrfs root partition does not work properly. The installer should warn people when they use a single partition that is btrfs that grub cannot writ

[Bug 1460794] Re: boot fails if /dev/cgroup fstab entry is present

2016-10-30 Thread Robert Hardy
This shouldn't have been marked invalid. It has caused me and apparently others grief. It wouldn't be hard to have the upgrade tool check for uncommented cgroup lines, given they blow up an upgrade. I'm glad my experience and work around helped someone else who ran into the same things. -- You

[Bug 1529402] Re: 15.04 Upgrade crash results in powered off server

2016-01-09 Thread Robert Hardy
No one has any suggestions? This server 15.04 and is either already end of life or going end of life this month. I would really like to keep it supported. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 1529402] Re: 15.04 Upgrade crash results in powered off server

2015-12-26 Thread Robert Hardy
Please note the automatic captured data was on the server pre-upgrade 15.04. I did not think ubuntu-bug would run on the corrupted snapshot if I chrooted so I didn't try. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 1529402] [NEW] 15.04 Upgrade crash results in powered off server

2015-12-26 Thread Robert Hardy
Public bug reported: I attempted to upgrade a small home server that serves my parents from 15.04 to 15.10 to remain supported. The first attempt at this resulted in a crash and power off in roughly the last 20% of the upgrade. The system is a desktop but it does have a good AVR capable UPS pro

Re: [Bug 1460794] Re: systemd does not boot with a separate /usr partition

2015-07-02 Thread Robert Hardy
I am not convinced that the cgroup issue was the only issue here, but since this is a single physical I can't easily go back in time to test further. Either way the changed summary is backwards. Once repartitioning was completed systemd fails to boot if the /dev/cgroup fstab entry IS present. Th

[Bug 1460794] Re: systemd does not boot with a separate /usr partition

2015-07-01 Thread Robert Hardy
I dug into this more on the server that failed to upgrade properly to see if the server would work properly after switching back to systemd. Please recall this was after a backup and restore with a much simpler partitioning scheme. It still would not boot. I ended up finding this line in my fstab:

Re: [Bug 1460794] Re: systemd will not work with a separate /usr partition

2015-06-10 Thread Robert Hardy
faults 0 0 UUID=99649f74-7be3-427a-9eef-65a1b2922196 /mnt/tmp xfs defaults 0 0 All a journalctl -b would gather now would be the boot log data 9 days after this was all fixed. The log only goes back 3 days. The blkid would capture uuids for the new partitions. Do y

Re: [Bug 1460790] Re: 14.10 to 15.04 upgraded system with separate /usr fails to boot

2015-06-10 Thread Robert Hardy
nger have the logs... Regards, Rob -- -"Happiness is understanding."------ Robert Hardy, B.Eng Computer Systems C.I.O. Webcon Inc. rhardy webcon caGPG Key available (613) 276-7327 -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 1461340] Re: 2012 squirrelmail release incompatible with php 5.6.

2015-06-04 Thread Robert Hardy
Please note I had to upgrade to the 1.5.2 series in order to get a working system on Ubuntu 15.04. I have packaged this and put an upgraded package in my PPA: ppa:rhardy/webconsrp The new package works for me. I went for a fresh config file on the new version but that is optional. The package is

[Bug 1461340] [NEW] 2012 squirrelmail release incompatible with php 5.6.

2015-06-02 Thread Robert Hardy
Public bug reported: The version of squirrelmail in universe is ancient i.e. from 2012. Ubuntu 15.04 now ships with php 5.6 which has verify_peer on my default. That is a good idea if you can actually configure it. This version of squirrelmail does not support configuring your TLS connections an

[Bug 1460794] Re: systemd will not work with a separate /usr partition

2015-06-02 Thread Robert Hardy
Please note attempting to mitigate this by switching back to upstart failed as well. Doing so did make it so the system would boot past mounting /usr however for no obvious reason the system stopped automatically mounting the /var partition. With no network services running, the system would stop

[Bug 1460790] Re: 14.10 to 15.04 upgraded system with separate /usr fails to boot

2015-06-02 Thread Robert Hardy
Please note attempting to mitigate this by switching back to upstart failed as well. Doing so did make it so the system would boot past mounting /usr however for no obvious reason the system stopped automatically mounting the /var partition. With no network services running, the system would stop

[Bug 1460794] [NEW] systemd will not work with a separate /usr partition

2015-06-01 Thread Robert Hardy
Public bug reported: I recently upgraded a server from 14.10 to 15.04. The upgrade claim to have worked but the system could not boot afterwards. Basically when you attempt to reboot you end up at an emergency maintenance prompt early in the boot process. After a lot of digging one of the messag

[Bug 1460790] [NEW] 14.10 to 15.04 upgraded system with separate /usr fails to boot

2015-06-01 Thread Robert Hardy
Public bug reported: One of my servers has a separate partition for /usr partition. I recently tried to upgrade my server from 14.04 to 14.10 and then 15.04. The first upgrade went well. The 2nd from 14.10 to 15.04 "succeeded" with no obvious issues until you reboot. Unfortunately what actually

Re: [Bug 1216187] Re: unity blocks saucy upgrade

2013-08-27 Thread Robert Hardy
I started from a server install of 10.04 on which I added Xubuntu. Unity must have gotten picked up along the upgrade path. Rob --- Original message --- > From: Brian Murray > To: rha...@webcon.ca > Sent: 2013-08-27, 16:41 > > I believe this is because you've installed unity on a Xubun

[Bug 1216187] [NEW] unity blocks saucy upgrade

2013-08-23 Thread Robert Hardy
Public bug reported: Upgrade failed from latest raring to saucy development. Success was expected. Fortunately it was done in a sandbox so no damage occured. "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: The package 'unity' is marked for removal

[Bug 523311] Re: pbzip2 should be able to replace bzip2

2011-08-12 Thread Robert Hardy
My PPA has a build of pbzip2-1.15-0ubuntu1 with a few of the addons which bzip2 has. ex. bzdiff as pbzdiff etc. If pbzip2 is an alternative it probably should be in /bin not /usr/bin. My package made that change too. Still missing are: bzip2recover, bzexe and bzcat. But at least it is a start. -

[Bug 692691] Re: update-grub thinks my kernel is a xen one

2011-07-22 Thread Robert Hardy
This regression also affects lucid and is blocking use of kernels in lucid updates such as linux-image-2.6.38-10-virtual. Natty's fixed grub rebuilds fine without changes under lucid without issue. Please fast track the fix in updates for lucid as well. I've put the rebuild in my PPA for now. FYI

[Bug 768360] Re: double welcome banner in ubuntu server

2011-04-21 Thread Robert Hardy
I started seeing this too around April 18th @ 11:08 on all my 10.04 Ubuntu servers. I eventually found a static copy of my motd, which was never getting updated in /etc/motd.tail. I have no idea what put that there, but given it happened on all my servers it must have been a package update and ye

[Bug 594827] Re: broken bmc-watchdog init script/logrotate config

2011-02-28 Thread Robert Hardy
I've rebuilt a deb suitable for inclusion in Universe which fixes this bug. If anyone copied here has an idea how to actually make that happen, please let me know. My freeipmi_0.7.15-2ubuntu4.dsc based packages are currently in my ppa:rhardy/webconsrp here: https://launchpad.net/~rhardy/+archive/

[Bug 607838] Re: 3w-sas driver

2010-10-25 Thread Robert Hardy
Note: for dkms to work reliably you must do this: echo 3w-sas >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules I'm not sure what happened but starting with 2.6.32-25-server dkms now refuses to install the 3w-sas.ko module anywhere except /lib/modules/2.6.32-*-server/updates/dkms/3w-sas.ko, despite my dkms.conf exp

[Bug 607838] Re: 3w-sas driver

2010-08-19 Thread Robert Hardy
Here is the dkms.conf referenced in my previous comment. ** Attachment added: "dkms.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/607838/+attachment/1501492/+files/dkms.conf -- 3w-sas driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607838 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 607838] Re: 3w-sas driver

2010-08-19 Thread Robert Hardy
The simplest way of dealing with this right now, and it is far from painless, is to grab the 3w-sas-2.6.32.tgz src driver from 3ware/lsi and use dkms to manage it. It took me a while to find this. The rough process for Lucid goes: apt-get install dkms mkdir -p /tmp/foo; cd /tmp/foo; tar xzvpf 3w-

[Bug 594827] Re: broken bmc-watchdog init script/logrotate config

2010-06-15 Thread Robert Hardy
** Also affects: freeipmi (Debian) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- broken bmc-watchdog init script/logrotate config https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/594827 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 594827] Re: broken bmc-watchdog init script/logrotate config

2010-06-15 Thread Robert Hardy
** Patch added: "tgz with new init script and logrotate patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50396383/freeipmi-bmc-watchdog_logrotate_init_fixes.tar.gz -- broken bmc-watchdog init script/logrotate config https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/594827 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 594827] [NEW] broken bmc-watchdog init script/logrotate config

2010-06-15 Thread Robert Hardy
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release:10.04 freeipmi-bmc-watchdog: Installed: 0.7.15-2 Candidate: 0.7.15-2 Version table: *** 0.7.15-2 0 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status The init scrip