[Bug 1798251] [NEW] Cannot boot from USB pen drive

2018-10-16 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: I have not been able to successfully create a bootable USB flash drive for about two years using modern desktop versions of Ubuntu. This weekend I tried again by booting from an Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 amd64 workstation and using ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso. The qemu test run

[Bug 1798251] Re: Cannot boot from USB pen drive

2018-10-16 Thread John Bester
I just tried booting the USB drive of ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso on a different workstation. The drive was picked up for the boot menu and the grub boot menu was displayed. I selected "Try Ubuntu without installing" and it seemed to start booting (flash screen appeared). Then after a while it d

[Bug 1798251] Re: Cannot boot from USB pen drive

2018-10-17 Thread John Bester
I have been able to successfully create a USB drive that boots Ubuntu 18 ISO images. The web site that I used for information is https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2012-12/22-the_ultimate_usb_stick_setup . I had to make a few changes to grub.cfg. I will attach a zip file containing the contents of th

[Bug 1798251] Re: Cannot boot from USB pen drive

2018-10-17 Thread John Bester
** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => usb-creator (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: usb-creator (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/1798251 Title: Ca

[Bug 794415] Re: Seg fault on launch

2016-06-24 Thread John Bester
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 753520 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/753520 I have seen Remmina causing a segmentation fault on startup many times. I always had to fix it by changing the default locale to en_US. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 900384] Re: usbipd requires usbip_common_mod.ko and usbip.ko kernel modules, which are not available in any package

2018-02-21 Thread John Bester
Just tried it on Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0-112 and the problem persists. It is now more than 6 years - yes 6 YEARS - since this problem has been logged. And no, linux-tools-generic does not solve the problem. It does not contain libusb, libusbd, usbip_common_mod.ko or usbip.ko. According to ub

[Bug 900384] Re: usbipd requires usbip_common_mod.ko and usbip.ko kernel modules, which are not available in any package

2018-02-21 Thread John Bester
Finally got it! linux-tools-generic needs to commands to be executed after install: ln -s /usr/lib/linux-tools/$(uname -r)/usbip /usr/sbin/usbip ln -s /usr/lib/linux-tools/$(uname -r)/usbipd /usr/sbin/usbipd By doing this, root will have usbip and usbipd in its executable path -- You received th

[Bug 1751230] Re: libc_bin package broken

2018-02-23 Thread John Bester
** Attachment added: "Run this after installing the rebuilt package" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1751230/+attachment/5060991/+files/postinst -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.laun

[Bug 1751230] [NEW] libc_bin package broken

2018-02-23 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: After an upgrade, I got this problem: dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139 During several retries and trying several possible solutions I found on the internet, I have seen this

[Bug 1769309] [NEW] Ubuntu 18.04 boot extremely slow

2018-05-05 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: I have upgraded Ubuntu 16.04 (amd64) using Gnome as desktop to Ubuntu 18.04. Ubuntu 16.04 took just over 20 seconds from the time a selection on the Grub boot menu was made until the login screen was displayed. On Ubuntu 18.04 it takes about 20 seconds (from Grub menu) to disp

[Bug 1769309] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 boot extremely slow

2018-05-06 Thread John Bester
Although I did not get the same entry in dmesg as Tonio, it did point me towards dmesg. So I have attached my dmesg ouput. I have listed the parts where significant time is somehow lost (please note that I am not an expert and therefore I am not able to tell where exactly the gdm login screen appea

[Bug 1828273] [NEW] Framebuffer setting in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT has no effect

2019-05-08 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: I have an Ubuntu Server 18.04 installation with KVM and a guest OS to which a AMD video card needs to be passed through. It worked great for about 9 months and after a recent Ubuntu upgrade, efifb grabs the video card irrespective of the linux command line. The commnand line t

[Bug 1828273] Re: Framebuffer setting in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT has no effect

2019-05-08 Thread John Bester
I found another comment online and tried it: I added "blacklist efifb" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf. I then executed "update- initramfs -u" followed by "update-grub" and rebooted. Still no joy. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 1828273] Re: Framebuffer setting in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT has no effect

2019-05-08 Thread John Bester
Found another page stating that vga=0 should be in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT - this does not work either. Another page states that you should enable GRUB_TERMINAL=console, this does not work. Another page says you should add "blacklist vga16fb" in /etc/modprobe.d /blacklist-framebuffer.conf, thi

[Bug 1828273] Re: Framebuffer setting in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT has no effect

2019-05-08 Thread John Bester
Yet another comment I found said that the following would work, but it did not: systemctl set-default -f multi-user.target Take into account that this is Ubuntu Server 18.04. Server operating system should not rely on graphics cards, so it should be possible to boot Ubuntu Server without a framebu

[Bug 1820866] Re: File dialog extremely slow scanning network mounts

2021-01-14 Thread John Bester
Ubuntu 20.04 does not have this problem any more. I did a few tests (even shutting down the server for which I had a share bookmarked). The various different scenarios I tested all behaved as I would expect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1820866] [NEW] File dialog extremely slow

2019-03-19 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: >From any application where you have a "save as" or "open" option, the dialog displays, but it takes forever. I have a i5 with 16GB RAM and 2 SSD's, so the machine is not slow. However, if I use gedit and click open / Other documents it takes 6 to 7 seconds before the file dia

[Bug 1827493] [NEW] Radeon RX560 driver does not install on KVM guest

2019-05-03 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: System information: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (server edition) with kernel 4.15.0-47-generic x86_64 Software: qemu-kvm: Installed: 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.12 Hardware: Motherboard: X370 Killer SLI CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X PCI device: 26:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro De

[Bug 1776269] Re: Installer causes VM to be paused

2018-06-11 Thread John Bester
Sorry about the attachment. The POST timed out and I had to go back on browser and submit again. I think the attachment got lost in the process. ** Attachment added: "Logs" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1776269/+attachment/5151593/+files/bug-detail.txt -- You received t

[Bug 1776269] Re: Installer causes VM to be paused

2018-06-11 Thread John Bester
How difficult would it be to have a PPA repository with the qemu / libvirt version that was distributed with 17.10? I know that 18.04 is an LTS and therefore big software changes will not happen. I have to rebuild a server and install 17.10 if I do not get a solution to this process quickly. Any he

[Bug 1776269] Re: Installer causes VM to be paused

2018-06-13 Thread John Bester
Thanks. This put me on the right track and I was able to solve the problem. I will summarise the steps I took. (The PCI address in my case is 26:00.0 - take that into account when reading further) On the KVM host, execute the following: dmesg | grep -i 'vfio.*26[:]00' This produced the following

[Bug 1781891] Re: PCI USB card passthrough does not work any more

2018-07-18 Thread John Bester
Thanks. Some very good news: In a previous message I asked how I could get back to having USB card controlled by Linux USB driver. I still cannot tell whether a recent kernel upgrade bought about the change, but Linux is still handing over the device to vfio (without me changing anything in etc) an

[Bug 1781891] Re: PCI USB card passthrough does not work any more

2018-07-18 Thread John Bester
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => 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/1781891 Title: PCI USB card passthrough does not work any more To manage notifi

[Bug 1776269] [NEW] Installer causes VM to be paused

2018-06-11 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18 Linux sbri19 4.15.0-23-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 18:02:16 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have an Ubuntu 18.04 Server with a Windows 10 VM with AMD Graphics card passthrough. The driver happily installed and worked like a

[Bug 1781891] [NEW] PCI USB card passthrough does not work any more

2018-07-16 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: System information: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (server edition) with kernel 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64 Upgraded from Ubuntu server 17.10 Software: qemu-kvm: Installed: 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.4 Candidate: 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.4 Version table: *** 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.4 500 50

[Bug 1781891] Re: PCI USB card passthrough does not work any more

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: System information: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (server edition) with kernel 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64 Upgraded from Ubuntu server 17.10 Software: qemu-kvm: Installed: 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.4 Candidate: 1:2.11+dfs

[Bug 1781891] PciMultimedia.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "PciMultimedia.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164571/+files/PciMultimedia.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17818

[Bug 1781891] Lspci.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164570/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891 Title: PCI

[Bug 1781891] Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164568/+files/Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 1781891] CRDA.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "CRDA.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164567/+files/CRDA.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891 Title: PCI US

[Bug 1781891] CurrentDmesg.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164569/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891

[Bug 1781891] ProcModules.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcModules.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164576/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891

[Bug 1781891] UdevDb.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164577/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891 Title: PC

[Bug 1781891] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfo.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164572/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891

[Bug 1781891] ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164573/+files/ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1781891] ProcInterrupts.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcInterrupts.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164575/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178

[Bug 1781891] WifiSyslog.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "WifiSyslog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164578/+files/WifiSyslog.txt ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 1781891] ProcEnviron.txt

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcEnviron.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891/+attachment/5164574/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781891

[Bug 1781891] Re: PCI USB card passthrough does not work any more

2018-07-17 Thread John Bester
I followed the instructions to unbind the device from xhci and bind it to vfio and afterwords I was able to boot the VM with the PCI card set up as pass-through. However, the Windows VM only listed it as an unknown PCI device and could not find the device drivers (VIA VL805) and I could not find an

[Bug 1781891] Re: PCI USB card passthrough does not work any more

2018-07-18 Thread John Bester
First let me thank you for your quick and informative and very helpful responses. Installing the mainline kernel is not really an option for the following reason: The server is at a client and was built about a month before Ubuntu 18.04 was released, so I opted to install Ubuntu Server 17.10 to ge

[Bug 1698758] [NEW] Encrypted password causes segmentation fault

2017-06-19 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: I have configured a .htaccess to use libapache2-mod-auth-pgsql to authenticate a user against a postgres database. The settings are as follows: AuthType basic AuthName "My Auth" Require valid-user AuthBasicProvider pgsql Auth_PG_authoritative On Auth_PG_host 127.0.0.1 Auth_PG

[Bug 1698806] [NEW] Apache dbd auth configuration error

2017-06-19 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: OS: Ubuntu 1604 Apache2: 2.4.18-2ubuntu Using DBD authentication using a Postgresql database for specific files seems impossible. The following configuration entries seems only to be allowed in global area (VirtualHost element) of a host definition. Putting it in a element c

[Bug 1642598] [NEW] Nemo memory leak

2016-11-17 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: Nemo either has a memory leak or very bad memory management. Ubuntu 16.04 comes to a grinding halt on a PC with Nemo installed. This happened a number of times the last week (since nemo was installed because of its ability to have dual panes). The PC is switched off every nigh

[Bug 1577341] [NEW] 180, 000 _XSERVTrans error log lines on single boot

2016-05-02 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release:16.04 uname -a Linux popeye 4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:33:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux My PC booted in 18 seconds before upgrading to Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 - now it takes 2 minu

[Bug 1404779] Re: Hp Designjet 130 prints part of page then freezes

2016-02-02 Thread John Bester
We have a HP-DesignJet 130 connected to Ubuntu 14.04 (upgraded from 12.04 in order to get plotter to work). The HP-DesignJet_130-cdnj500.ppd seems to be very close to a working solution. It seems as if all that is needed is for the buffer to be flushed and the paper ejected (manual load). All print

[Bug 1010349] Re: Evolution address book inaccessible without killing one time "e-addressbook-factory"

2013-01-29 Thread John Bester
I have had this problem for some time using Thunderbird. I have a "Google" addressbook that I cannot remember creating. After reading these posts (especially killing e-addressbook-factory) I seemed to have solved it for me (a Thunderbird user). The "Google" address book dates back to the time I use

[Bug 429044] Re: USB barcode scanner (emulating keyboard) crashes with current kernel

2011-09-22 Thread John Bester
According to comment on 2011-01-24 the bug fix was released. I am currently running and Linux 2.6.32-33 (Ubuntu 10.04) and the bug still seems to be present. I have tried 2 different Zebex scanners and some digits are consistently dropped. For instance a barcode "14010" yields "140". I have commen

[Bug 429044] Re: USB barcode scanner (emulating keyboard) crashes with current kernel

2011-09-22 Thread John Bester
I did another test on Ubuntu 11.04 (which I booted from an Ubuntu installation CD). I loaded the usbkbd module, unplugged the scanner and plugged it in again. No change whatsoever - still got "140" in stead of "14014". The exact same scanner works in a Windows XP POS system, but on 3 different comp

[Bug 1005766] [NEW] System boot hangs

2012-05-28 Thread John Bester
Public bug reported: Since I installed 12.04 on my system, I have had the following problem consistently. I first tried to upgrade an installation on a mda raid1 partition, which simply would not boot. I then did a clean install of 12.04 on a normal ext4 partition, but I still have a mda raid1 wi

[Bug 400485] Re: Empathy sounds not in default ubuntu theme

2011-03-02 Thread John Bester
It is a pity, really, to think that programmers have time to waste like this. Had it been me, I would have simply added an "Ubuntu with sound" scheme in 2009 when this bug was first reported. Yes, here we are in 2011 and the only time spent on the bug was posting 50 replies to this bug. -- You re

[Bug 531027] Re: spurious warning at boot time that is unrelated to your actual problem

2010-06-24 Thread John Bester
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 532984 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532984 After getting "GLib WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)" on fresh install of Lubuntu 10.4 and reading lots of posts, I looked and /var/log/lxdm.log and found a message stating that no s

[Bug 343421] Re: antspotlight crashed with SIGSEGV in exit()

2010-09-09 Thread John Bester
I think the bug I experienced over the last month or two is linked to this. Often I would get back to the login screen in stead of the unlock screen after screen saver was activated (screen would be switched off at already at that time). This means all the programs in my session is closed. At first