[Bug 1926938] Re: Recent mainline packages are built with Hirsuite 21.04, not Focal 20.04 LTS

2021-05-22 Thread Doug Smythies
When we try to help people, either here on launchpad or on forums, very often we would like them to try the latest mainline kernel, just as a test to determine if the issue has already been fixed upstream. This bug prevents that useful option for previous Ubuntu versions. This dependency should be

[Bug 1926938] Re: Recent mainline packages are built with Hirsuite 21.04, not Focal 20.04 LTS

2021-05-30 Thread Doug Smythies
Within the context of this bug report it is valid, as it is specifically about the mainline PPA. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 1908868] Re: a hot room in my father's home

2020-12-22 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K. there isn't any useful information in this bug report, nor does it sound like a docs issue. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 1805698] Re: Thanks for nothing

2018-11-28 Thread Doug Smythies
We are just simple overloaded volunteers here. Venting your frustration here doesn't help. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2018-11-23 Thread Doug Smythies
On my desktop 18.04 computer this happens for all the videos that I have tried (3 of the 5 so far). And yes, the web versions seem to work fine, which suggest to me that this is a yelp problem and not a docs problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2018-11-23 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar: I do see "WebKitWebProcess" using the most CPU during video play. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804786 Title: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 1794230] Re: failed to load kdump kernel

2018-09-25 Thread Doug Smythies
I get the same on my 16.04 test server. However, things seems to work fine, if I allocate enough memory, on my test 18.04 server VM (which runs on the aforementioned 16.04 test server). My real purpose here is to update the Ubuntu serverguide to deal with bug 1769130. -- You received this bug n

[Bug 1848581] Re: video rendering running very very slow

2019-10-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Not sure what package is the problem, but am sure it is not Ubuntu-docs. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848581 Title:

[Bug 1868019] Re: [FFe] Add method to enable fractional scaling

2020-03-30 Thread Doug Smythies
Ya, those e-mails to the lists were too big, due to big html and with an embedded png file. So they bounced even after being approved in moderation. I sent an edited e-mail to the lists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1863261 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863261 I don't think this is duplicate either. I agree that this seems to be in the kernel, but don't yet have proof. If I compile the mainline kernel (5.6-rc4) myself i get this error 5600 times (once per module):

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
I have a 20.04 VM that I had not run for awhile (Feb 12th). It has kmod version 26-3ubuntu1, and installed mainline kernel 5.6.0-050600rc4-lowlatency fine. The other two physical 20.04 test servers have kmod version 27-1ubuntu1, and both spew the error 5600 times during kernel installation the fir

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: kmod (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864992 Title: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not op

[Bug 1864436] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file

2020-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
I think bug 1864992 and this one are duplicates. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864436 Title: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin f

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
For what it's worth, the versions of things in my test computers, all servers, no GUI: name: serv-ff (a 20.04 VM, that has not had an update since around February 12th): initramfs-tools: 0.133ubuntu14 kmod; 26-3ubuntu1 name: s18 (a physical i5-9600K based computer, up to date as of a few days ag

[Bug 1596152] Re: Restore "Compose Key" documentation

2016-06-25 Thread Doug Smythies
Some notes, mainly for my own benefit: There is nothing mentioned in our spreadsheet (under any tab): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19RdaR3G_8TQ49f-Nb0XJAwhnlweMWJqsTr4kciSV5S0/edit#gid=584037095 The related revision is: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/trunk/revis

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-04-24 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752215 Title: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password To

[Bug 1532537] Re: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com

2018-04-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532537 Title: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com To manage no

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-04-26 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752215 Title: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password T

[Bug 1744072] Re: [MIR] Chrony in 18.04

2018-04-26 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744072 Title: [MIR] Chrony in 18.04 To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1734688] Re: serverguide: new ssl/mbox/plugin handling

2018-04-26 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734688 Title: serverguide: new ssl/mbox/plugin handling To manage notification

[Bug 1697861] Re: Server-guide should get a section about accessing qemu monitor via libvirt

2017-06-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1697861 Title: Server-guide should get a section about accessing qemu monitor via libvi

[Bug 1686330] Re: Server-guide should get a section about VF and usb passthrough

2017-06-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686330 Title: Server-guide should get a section about VF and usb passthrough To manage

[Bug 1604010] Re: sntp missing

2017-07-02 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604010 Title: sntp missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https:

[Bug 1649905] Re: On boot excessive number of kworker threads are running

2017-07-02 Thread Doug Smythies
@Eric (although you do not seem to have subscribed to this bug report). Your issue is different than what this bug report is/was covering. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1649905 Title:

[Bug 1734688] Re: serverguide: new ssl/mbox/plugin handling

2017-12-08 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734688 Title: serverguide: new ssl/mbox/plugin handling To manage notifications a

[Bug 1724124] Re: Ubuntu 16.04 - Ubuntu Server Guide - VPN - OpenVPN

2017-12-11 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724124 Title: Ubuntu 16.04 - Ubuntu Server Guide - VPN - OpenVPN To manage not

[Bug 1697861] Re: Server-guide should get a section about accessing qemu monitor via libvirt

2017-12-11 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1697861 Title: Server-guide should get a section about accessing qemu monitor vi

[Bug 1686330] Re: Server-guide should get a section about VF and usb passthrough

2017-12-11 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686330 Title: Server-guide should get a section about VF and usb passthrough T

[Bug 1604010] Re: sntp missing

2017-12-11 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604010 Title: sntp missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https

[Bug 1532537] Re: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com

2018-02-20 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed ** Changed in: serverguide Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: serverguide Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) ** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Status: Confir

[Bug 1532537] Re: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com

2018-02-21 Thread Doug Smythies
Gunnar and I have been working on a solution to this issue, based on Aders and Hans comments above and what gnome help does, and think we have something very practical and useful. It is now available for testing on help.ubuntu.com, in the development area, and only for the desktop help docs, so far

[Bug 1744072] Re: [MIR] Chrony in 18.04

2018-02-23 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744072 Title: [MIR] Chrony in 18.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https

[Bug 1532537] Re: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com

2018-02-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1532537 Title: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com To manage notifi

[Bug 1768121] Re: Mainline Kernel since 4.16.4 has postinstall script error

2018-05-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Part of this bug report is a duplicate with bug 1766728, and I believe that was fixed as of a couple of hours ago. The other part of this bug report, about needing libssl1.1, isn't fixed, as far as I know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-05-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Well, The serverguide was update for this, and the password stuff therein was deleted. There is no need to say anything else. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752215 Title: Server - LA

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-17 Thread Doug Smythies
I revived an old LapTop, that had Desktop 18.04 on it. Updated to current 18.04. Verified that this video issue was present. Upgraded the computer to 18.10. Ran one help video about 15 times without any issues. Upgraded the computer to 19.04. Ran the video only 2 times before it messed up. It messe

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-19 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar asked: > @Doug: Are you using Nouveau or some other graphics driver? Both desktop computers (one an old MAC with 18.04, and one the old HP LapTop I revived the other day with (now) 19.04) are using Radeon drivers. From the command you gave me off-list: $ lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | gr

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
I have 3 computers running Ubuntu desktop edition: An old HP LapTop, 19.04; An old Apple iMac, 18.04; And a VM, 18.04, running on my main Ubuntu 16.04 test server. All 3 have the issues, with one main difference in the 19.04 verses 18.04 "play again" stimulus response. Attached is the "lspci -k

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: webkit2gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804786 Title: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop G

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
The VM that I revived had not been run or updated since an early development version of 18.04, and it worked fine for playing the help videos. When I updated it, the yelp package did not update, but webkit did: doug@desk-aa:~$ grep -i webkit /var/log/apt/term.log | grep over Unpacking libwebkit2gt

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-27 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.05.26 19:18 Daniel van Vugt wrote: > This bug might be getting confused... I disagree. > Doug: You are reporting problems with the radeon > graphics driver, No, I am providing additional information in support of the original bug report, proving that the issue occurs on multiple platform

[Bug 869017] Re: Ubuntu server enables screenblanking, concealing crashdumps (DPMS is not used)

2019-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
Ever since the default changed to never blanking the screen, and after I whined in comment #18 above, I have been running this in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" consoleblank=300 " always save a copy of grub first, and do "sudo update-grub afterwards", then re-boot. -- You recei

[Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
@Davide Sangalli: What you describe and show in your comment #80 is correct and exactly what should happen. Your processor is spending an extraordinary amount of time in C1 as opposed to deeper idle states. At what sampling frequency do you run i7z? I would suggest once every 15 seconds or so, so t

[Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
There is only one PLL (Phase Locked Loop) in the processor, all CPUs get the resulting clock. When they go into deep idle states (deeper than C1, at least for my processor) then they give up their vote into the PLL as to what the frequency should be. Your single 100% task is dedicating the CPU freq

[Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Each CPU can have a different request into the PLL (phase locked loop), but the highest one wins, and their vote does not count if they are in an idle state deeper than C1. You can observe this manually by reading the pstate request and granted MSRs directly (requires msr-tools, and the msr module

[Bug 1845562] Re: libvirt error Invalid value '+cpu' for 'cgroup.subtree_control'

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
I had this error today. It was on a 20.04 development test server, upon which I was trying to start a freshly installed 20.04 server guest. The error occurred because I had this on my grub command line: cgroup_no_v1=all Once I removed it, the VM started fine. Note that I do not use virt-manager,

[Bug 1854653] [NEW] during shutdown libvirt-guests.sh shouldn't run if libvirtd isn't running

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: The libvirtd service being started during boot doesn't mean it is still running during shutdown. libvirt-guests.sh waits around for 10 seconds trying to communicate with it, re-trying once per second. The desire is that it either doesn't run at all or it checks if libvirtd i

[Bug 1854653] Re: during shutdown libvirt-guests.sh shouldn't run if libvirtd isn't running

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
For example, this seems to work well: doug@goom-i5:~/config/usr/lib/libvirt$ diff libvirt-guests.sh.original libvirt-guests.sh 114,124c114,126 < i=${CONNECT_RETRIES} < while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do < run_virsh "$uri" connect 2>/dev/null < if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then < retur

[Bug 1843945] Re: note: new server guide

2019-09-13 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => help.ubuntu.com -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1817321] Re: installer does not support iSCSI iBFT

2019-09-15 Thread Doug Smythies
the source code for the serverguide is migrating to a different markup language for 20.04. The migration was done a few days before these revisions were committed. They need to be copied to the new source. I am attempting to add "target to series" stuff to this bug report, but it is not working, li

[Bug 1844201] [NEW] turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: For processors on which it works, turbostat is a very very good diagnostic tool. For many upstream escalations, it is the preferred tool. However the Ubuntu implementation doesn't actually execute turbostat directly, but rather goes to some script with incredibly tight, and un

[Bug 1844201] Re: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
You do not need any logs for this bug report. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844201 Title: turbostat is over constrain

[Bug 1844201] Re: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844201 Title: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies To manage notificati

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-12-29 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Assignee: bourne (lahpo) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752215 Title: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks fo

[Bug 1917813] [NEW] HWP and C1E are incompatible - Intel processors

2021-03-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Modern Intel Processors (since Skylake) with HWP (HardWare Pstate) control enabled and Idle State 2, C1E, enabled can incorrectly drop the CPU frequency with an extremely slow recovery time. The fault is not within HWP itself, but within the internal idle detection logic. One

[Bug 1872200] Re: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases

2020-04-17 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar : Thank you for the workaround. It solved my problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872200 Title: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases To manage notification

[Bug 1874498] Re: 404 ntp documentation: lts/serverguide/NTP.html

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1874498] Re: 404 ntp documentation: lts/serverguide/NTP.html

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
By the way, once the redirect is fixed it will go to here: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs not here: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/network-ntp ** Branch linked: lp:help.ubuntu.com ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => help.ubuntu.com -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 1874590] Re: Installation guide for 20.04 Server is missing, says to use 18.04 docs but provides no link to 18.04 docs

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1874590] Re: Installation guide for 20.04 Server is missing, says to use 18.04 docs but provides no link to 18.04 docs

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
I had troubles compiling the installation guide on a 20.04 computer. Additionally, i had an issue with the redirects to a the new serverguide site. The installation guide will be there past noon UTC. i was not aware of the "Official Doumentation" link issue, but it should also be fixed upon tomor

[Bug 1874732] Re: Instllation guide has broken links

2020-04-24 Thread Doug Smythies
** Summary changed: - Server docs have broken links + Instllation guide has broken links ** Summary changed: - Instllation guide has broken links + Installation guide has broken links ** Project changed: help.ubuntu.com => installation-guide (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 1875974] Re: driver for acer aspire 5920 Crystal Eye

2020-04-29 Thread Doug Smythies
this doesn't appear to be a bug at all, and not against ubuntu-docs in particular. If the existing kernel module, uvcvideo.ko, doesn't work for you, perhaps look for support on askubuntu.com elsewhere. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug n

[Bug 1872200] Re: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases

2020-05-12 Thread Doug Smythies
I tested apt version 2.0.3. This: sudo apt install gnome-user-docs* gnome-getting-started-docs* whereas it did not before, and I had to use Gunnar's workaround from comment #6 above. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done-focal -- You received this bug noti

[Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-09 Thread Doug Smythies
As per comment #4, i made the same change: doug@serv-ee:~/temp-k-git/linux$ git diff diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3e4868a6498b..68f0858484a5 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -630,8 +630,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -pg endif -RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC := -m

[Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-10 Thread Doug Smythies
If I make the same changes to the Makefile as per the link in comment #16, then the kernel compiles fine and without the zillions of warnings I mentioned in comment #13. However I can not find this anywhere "upstream" as the notes seem to indicate. doug@serv-ee:~/temp-k-git/linux$ git diff diff --

[Bug 1836373] Re: Mainline builds for 5.1 and 5.2 failing for amd64 and i386

2019-07-12 Thread Doug Smythies
This is duplicate with bug 1830961. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836373 Title: Mainline builds for 5.1 and 5.2 failing for amd64 and i386 To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-20 Thread Doug Smythies
Several posters are asking for the mainline builds to be fixed. The mainline builds are an exact reflection of the upstream git master repositories. Therefore they have to wait for Seth's patch submission, which has been picked up and accepted by the kbuild team, to propagate it's way to the mainli

[Bug 1782857] Re: no burn button in file manager in 18.04

2018-07-21 Thread Doug Smythies
Gunnar; I have an iMac with 18.04 desktop, and an old HP LapTop still with 17.10 desktop (will be updraded to 18.04 soon). 18.04 and 17.10 behave differently upon insertion of a writable CD/DVD, but neither behave as per the web page. ** Changed in: gnome-user-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New =>

[Bug 1784494] Re: HTML5 Audio NOT Analog Stereo When Analog Stereo Selected

2018-07-30 Thread Doug Smythies
This is not an Ubuntu docs issue. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784494 Title: HTML5 Audio NOT Analog Stereo When A

[Bug 1775626] Re: File properties: location of Resume.pdf is wrong

2018-06-07 Thread Doug Smythies
It is not clear to me what version you are quoting, although partly 14.04, while running 16.04 References: https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/nautilus-file-properties-basic.html Source: nautilus-file-properties-basic.page Anyway, setting this to invalid. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu

[Bug 1775628] Re: File properties: Link target is not described

2018-06-07 Thread Doug Smythies
Where? I searched the entire source code for the 16.04 version of the docs and didn't get a hit for "lib64". ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-07-05 Thread Doug Smythies
@Ruj: I don't know. It is gone in the master code and in anything I look at from here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752215 Title: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a my

[Bug 1780498] Re: hacked problems inside your network

2018-07-06 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780498 Title: hacked problems inside your network To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1780835] Re: Paragraph duplicated in annex "C.2. The Directory Tree" of the Ubuntu Installation Guide

2018-07-10 Thread Doug Smythies
** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => installation-guide (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780835 Title: Paragraph duplicated in annex "C.2. The Directory Tree" of the Ub

[Bug 1780835] Re: Paragraph duplicated in annex "C.2. The Directory Tree" of the Ubuntu Installation Guide

2018-07-10 Thread Doug Smythies
Source file: en/partitioning/tree.xml Lines: 120 and repeat at line 130. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780835 Title: Paragraph duplicated in annex "C.2. The Directory Tree" of the

[Bug 1781415] Re: Reporting bugs against documentation is annoying.

2018-07-13 Thread Doug Smythies
We're just volunteers here, and we didn't invent the process. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781415 Title: Reporti

[Bug 1752215] [NEW] Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-02-27 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: In the past, and even as recently as Feb 13th, the daily server ISO for bionic, has always asked for a mysql password during installation. Today it didn't and subsequently the mysql test step fails. ** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Sta

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
So, if I understand correctly the test case step 27 should change from this: Test MySQL: mysql -u root -p If you set the MySQL root account with a password, you will be prompted to enter it now. You should then be presented with a mysql prompt mysql> where you can enter some mysql comman

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-03-06 Thread Doug Smythies
The 18.04 serverguide MYSQL chapter needs to updated also. ** Also affects: serverguide Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: serverguide Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: serverguide Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You re

[Bug 1517746] Re: Selecting and install software fails on ubnutu server xenial

2016-03-07 Thread Doug Smythies
Same with the daily of 2016.03.07. It does seem possible to get past the "select and install" software failure loop, by not selecting anything, but then it seems to load the mail server stuff and wants to configure it. I was able to run tasksel afterwards and install what I really wanted in the

[Bug 1551351] Re: dhclient does not renew leases

2016-03-08 Thread Doug Smythies
>From Stephan comment 14: "Hm, of course, if one starts dhclient in debug mode (foreground) by adding a "-d", everything does work." Yes, that does seem to work, but only for about another day, at least in my case. Thereafter, my ISP stopped returning my domain name, host name and some other stuf

[Bug 1551351] Re: dhclient does not renew leases

2016-03-08 Thread Doug Smythies
Correction 1: Stefan not Stephan, sorry. Correction 2: Things broke down about another 1/2 day after the lease times changes to 1 hour. The client didn't seem to release this and resorted to broadcast type discover stuff. Then it was getting leases for 5 minutes, and the cycle continued until I

[Bug 1517746] Re: Selecting and install software fails on ubnutu server xenial

2016-03-08 Thread Doug Smythies
Same with the daily of 2016.03.08. I seem to be the only person testing server daily ISO's. Setting the importance to high, as it is not good to not be able to select and install software at this stage of the cycle. ** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- Y

[Bug 1374759] Re: >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old

2016-03-09 Thread Doug Smythies
Stefan, the patch proposed in comment #26 works on my test 16.04 server. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1374759 Title: >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default

[Bug 1556671] [NEW] [xenial] virt-install aborts with ImportError: No module named ipaddr

2016-03-13 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: The server is a fresh install on 16.04 server edition. However, and due to bug 1517746, some tasks were added post installation using tasksel. virt-install is aborting: doug@s15:~/iso$ sudo virt-install -n desk_tt -r 8192 \ --disk path=/media/newhd/desk_tt.img,bus=virtio,siz

[Bug 1556671] Re: [xenial] virt-install aborts with ImportError: No module named ipaddr

2016-03-13 Thread Doug Smythies
It seems there is a package called "python-ipaddr" and once it is installed, one gets past this error. However the next one is: File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/urlfetcher.py", line 27, in import requests ImportError: No module named requests O.K. so there seems to be a package calle

[Bug 1556356] Re: Menu item label "Software Sources" -> "Software & Updates"

2016-03-13 Thread Doug Smythies
Gunnar: I am doing the update edits to the the related help pages right now. I will do the edits based on this issue being fixed and not based on the way it is at the moment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 1532537] Re: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com

2016-11-20 Thread Doug Smythies
> Is help.ubuntu.com (the page) editable? That page is one of only a few hand written html files that "glue" the entire help.ubuntu.com together. By far, most of the files actually have their master code in another project (help docs or serverguide or installation guide or cloud stuff). Yes, it is

[Bug 1532537] Re: Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com

2016-11-22 Thread Doug Smythies
The attached details Chris' proposed change to the text of the index.html file. I'll e-mail Chris, Gunnar, and Peter a link to my web site copy of help.ubuntu.com with this proposed change. ** Attachment added: "proposed change diff file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/help.ubuntu.com/+bug/15325

[Bug 1641120] Re: too many kernels produce start loop

2016-11-23 Thread Doug Smythies
I don't think this age old too many kernels problem, and the should old ones be auto-deleted or not, is specific to any particular package. It has been beat to death over years and years. I'll just set this one to invalid. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Y

[Bug 1527657] Re: Drop mediawiki from Xenial

2016-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
Now that mediawiki is back in 16.10, will the newer version be backported to 16.04? We only publish the Ubuntu Serverguide for LTS releases and do not want to add some note that it may or may not be there. See also bug #1644701 . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1457960] Re: Package newer version of mediawiki

2016-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K. so for backporting to 16.04, the upstream bug that Jeremy says to fixed first has been closed. So can it now be backported to 16.04? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1457960 Title:

[Bug 1649554] Re: Default Mallard element translated incorrectly

2016-12-14 Thread Doug Smythies
> On reflection I think it's best if writers say what kind of they want. Agreed. > The command grep "https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1649554 Title: Default Mallard element translated incorrectly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-d

[Bug 1626564] Re: 4.8 regression: SLAB is being used instead of SLUB

2016-12-14 Thread Doug Smythies
One of the 3 patches was included in the mainline kernel sometime ago. It fixed SLAB, but not SLUB. The other two patches are now in the mainline kernel and will appear in kernel 4.10-RC1. I'll re-test then. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1649905] Re: On boot excessive number of kworker threads are running

2016-12-14 Thread Doug Smythies
I didn't see the third commit mentioned which I thought was also required: mm: memcontrol: use special workqueue for creating per-memcg caches Anyway, I'll test also, once kernel 4.10-rc1 is ready. The upstream bug report is this one: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991 ** Bug w

[Bug 1637936] Re: better upgrading machine types

2016-12-22 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637936 Title: better upgrading machine types To manage notifications about thi

[Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
What has been done here is incorrect. The old "ondemand" script was modified so that if the intel_pstate driver was being used, and therefore "ondemand" did not exist, it would fall through to setting the "powersave" governor (refer to bug #1314643). Note that "powersave" with the intel_pstate CPU

[Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
>> The preferred governor with the intel_pstate driver is powersave. > Do you have some references/proof for that? This is contrary to what > kernel developers say, see comment 1. In my opinion, that reference is obsolete. While I don't work for Intel, the intel_pstate CPU frequency driver is pr

[Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-17 Thread Doug Smythies
Using kernel 4.8-rc5 I did some energy tests, using a SpecPower simulator that I made one time. I reused intel_pstate powersave data from a previous test. Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147326197513427&w=2 Big numbers are Joules (package Joules from turbostat) Smaller numbers are

[Bug 1579278] Re: Keep powersave CPU frequency scaling governor for CPUs that support intel_pstate

2016-09-17 Thread Doug Smythies
The table formatting got messed up, trying again: Load: idle0.5XX 2X 3X 4X 5X 100% powersave 570811037 16075 29147 45913 61165 76650 81695 3.817.3610.72 19.43 30.61 40.78 51.10 54.46 performance

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