Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu Community

[Simon Greenwood]

On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 12:20, Simon Greenwood 
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 09:25, Mark Dorrington 
> wrote:
>
>> I live in Canterbury Kent
>>
>> I own a ubuntu touch smartphone an lg nexus 5
>>
>> I am currently having issues with my phone
>> the screen occasionally flickers i keep having a weak signal
>> and signal cutouts.
>>
>> Could anybody do some research for to find someone
>> that specializes in ubuntu touch smartphones
>>
>> Many Thanks
>>
>> Mark.
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>>
>
> Hello -
>
> This list is nearly dead now so you may be better off asking elsewhere.
> Ubuntu Touch support itself is via https://ubports.com, but if the phone
> has started developing issues and you haven't upgraded recently it, it may
> be hardware related so you may need to find someone who is familiar with
> the LG Nexus 5 and get it checked.
>
> Simon
>
>
> This is the UBports Nexus 5 forum:
https://forums.ubports.com/category/56/google-nexus-5

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu Community

[Simon Greenwood]

On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 09:25, Mark Dorrington 
wrote:

> I live in Canterbury Kent
>
> I own a ubuntu touch smartphone an lg nexus 5
>
> I am currently having issues with my phone
> the screen occasionally flickers i keep having a weak signal
> and signal cutouts.
>
> Could anybody do some research for to find someone
> that specializes in ubuntu touch smartphones
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Mark.
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> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
>

Hello -

This list is nearly dead now so you may be better off asking elsewhere.
Ubuntu Touch support itself is via https://ubports.com, but if the phone
has started developing issues and you haven't upgraded recently it, it may
be hardware related so you may need to find someone who is familiar with
the LG Nexus 5 and get it checked.

Simon


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[Bug 1698407] Re: Checkboxes not showing on some sites

[Simon Greenwood]

Agreed that suggesting 18.04 is invalid as of today (02/03/18) as it
isn't released yet. Nor is it an actual issue with Ubuntu, but with
Firefox and Stylish.

However, it doesn't seem to occur with 58 and Stylish 3 so it's
hopefully been left behind.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB DVD/CD Drive

[Simon Greenwood]

On 6 July 2017 at 11:56, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 6 July 2017 at 11:31, Tony Pursell <tony.purs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 6 July 2017, Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm looking for a cheap external DVD/CD USB drive (mainly to rip my
>> > own CDs and maybe burn some DVDs).
>> >
>> > Can anyone recommend a model which works well with 16.04?
>> >
>> > I have USB3 if that helps.
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
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>>
>> I got a really cheap one from Ebuyer. No problem with it working.  On
>> 14.04 at that time.
>>
>> --
>
>
> ​Same, I've had the same Samsung burner from eBuyer for years, even works
> with a Raspberry Pi (slowly).
>
>
>
​And as if Amazon was reading my email *cough*, this turned up in Today's
Deals just now:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/External-Version-Pictek-Portable-Computer/dp/B01KWTM7F4/ref=pe_2118791_201439211_dotd_h_t

A USB 3 drive/burner for just over £20 with a couple of other alternatives
at the bottom. There's no reason it shouldn't work with Ubuntu.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB DVD/CD Drive

[Simon Greenwood]

On 6 July 2017 at 11:31, Tony Pursell  wrote:

>
>
> On Thursday, 6 July 2017, Steve Mynott  wrote:
> > I'm looking for a cheap external DVD/CD USB drive (mainly to rip my
> > own CDs and maybe burn some DVDs).
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a model which works well with 16.04?
> >
> > I have USB3 if that helps.
> >
> > --
> > 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott 
> >
> > --
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> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
>
> I got a really cheap one from Ebuyer. No problem with it working.  On
> 14.04 at that time.
>
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​Same, I've had the same Samsung burner from eBuyer for years, even works
with a Raspberry Pi (slowly).

s/​

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[Bug 1698407] Re: Checkboxes not showing on some sites

[Simon Greenwood]

Have now found that this is the Stylish plugin. Disabling it has made
checkboxes appear again, although possibly unstyled. Feedback sent to
Stylish devs.

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[Bug 1698407] Re: Checkboxes not showing on some sites

[Simon Greenwood]

Seems to be widespread - assume it's a CSS rendering issue or something
but can't see a common element in any pages.

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[Bug 1698407] Re: Checkboxes not showing on some sites

[Simon Greenwood]

Not showing on amazon.co.uk checkout page as well.

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[Bug 1698407] [NEW] Checkboxes not showing on some sites

[Simon Greenwood]

Public bug reported:

Firefox updated to 54 today, checkboxes are not showing on my private
helpdesk application (old version of Kayako) but I have also just
noticed on Reddit, specifically the subreddit search box. I also note
there are no buttons showing on Gandi.net's login page which is probably
related - this occurred in 52 but not 53.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: firefox 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-54.57-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-54-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USERPID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  simong 2591 F pulseaudio
BuildID: 20170612122018
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Jun 16 16:48:19 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini 
or extensions.sqlite)
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-22 (328 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp1s0  proto static  metric 600 
 169.254.0.0/16 dev virbr0  scope link  metric 1000 linkdown 
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp1s0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.45  metric 
600 
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.122.1 
linkdown
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
MostRecentCrashID: bp-26c3f5ab-4dd8-4ac4-8d6d-4edaa1170613
Plugins: Shockwave Flash - /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so 
(adobe-flashplugin)
PrefSources: prefs.js
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=54.0/20170612122018 (In use)
RelatedPackageVersions: adobe-flashplugin 1:20170613.2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-02 (225 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/12/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 5.11
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: N350DW
dmi.board.vendor: CLEVO
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr5.11:bd04/12/2016:svnPCSpecialistLimited:pnN350DW:pvrNotApplicable:rvnCLEVO:rnN350DW:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNoEnclosure:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: N350DW
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: PC Specialist Limited

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug yakkety

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome 3 with a docking station

[Simon Greenwood]

On 28 April 2017 at 18:13, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/04/17 18:36, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> I've switched my primary laptop Xubuntu install to Gnome 3 what with all
>> this sudden interest in it and I'm quite pleased with how it all hangs
>> together, especially with the availability of extensions. There is one
>> tweak or extension that I haven't found yet: I frequently plug my laptop
>> into a docking station on my desk and Gnome automatically detects all the
>> connected displays but I would like to tell it to switch off my laptop
>> display and just use my desktop monitors. I currently do this with arandr
>> and that works well, but you know, laziness.  Any idea where this could be
>> managed?
>>
>
> It sounds to me like a udev script would be the sort of thing to achieve
> that. A google for udev laptop dock script along with your make and model
> of laptop might turn up something useful.
>
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>

​Ah, this page in the wiki gives examples:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaptopLidAndDockScripts​ so I will have a
play to find the state of my dock (it's a Clevo N350DW from PCSpecialist
for reference). I had an idea of what I was looking for but wasn't sure
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[ubuntu-uk] Gnome 3 with a docking station

[Simon Greenwood]

I've switched my primary laptop Xubuntu install to Gnome 3 what with all
this sudden interest in it and I'm quite pleased with how it all hangs
together, especially with the availability of extensions. There is one
tweak or extension that I haven't found yet: I frequently plug my laptop
into a docking station on my desk and Gnome automatically detects all the
connected displays but I would like to tell it to switch off my laptop
display and just use my desktop monitors. I currently do this with arandr
and that works well, but you know, laziness.  Any idea where this could be
managed?

Simon

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shock announcement

[Simon Greenwood]

Just as I got Ubuntu Touch running on a Nexus 4 too​. There has been a
distinct feeling recently that alternative phone OSes are becoming more of
a niche (if that's possible).

​It shouldn't take much for Gnome to look like Unity, but then again the
question may be how far Canonical go with working on that.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB wi-fi adapter recommendation?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 9 March 2017 at 12:04, Adam Funk  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend a good USB wi-fi adapter for use with Ubuntu?  I
> don't mind if it takes some tinkering to set up the first time, but I
> need high reliability for a non-gearhead to be able to use it after
> that.
>
> ​Most modern ones should work, although possibly steer clear of anything
Broadcombased. The last one I had was from Netgear and it just plugged in
and worked.

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[ubuntu-uk] Chromium packages out of date in 16.10

[Simon Greenwood]

This may be of interest to some people. This morning I started getting
a NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED
error for amazon.co.uk in Chromium. This is due to a recent Google feature
that requires HTTPS certificate chains to be transparent and affects a few
other large sites - I noticed bt.com is affected as well and that this
first occurred 28 days ago so I assume it's hit some kind of grace period.
This has been fixed in Chrome 55 but Chromium is still on 53. There appear
to be an assortment of workarounds up to and including purging and
reinstalling Chromium but obviously this still provides 53. I have switched
to Chrome hopefully temporarily but there doesn't seem to be a lot of
activity in the Chromium-browser Launchpad.
I understand 55 brings in the fairly radical but long awaited change of
preferring HTML5 but this problem with HTTPS would seem to be more of a
show-stopper.

s/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongles

[Simon Greenwood]

On 30 November 2016 at 12:03, Dave Morley  wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:56:01 + (UTC)
> George Tripp  wrote:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a wifi dongle that's plug & play / compatible
> > with 16.04.
> >
> >
> > George
> >
>
> Pretty much any will work personally I have tp-link ones that work fine.
>
>
​I have a 4G Huawei one badged with a Russian ISP that I picked up from
eBay and it works fine with Ubuntu and ChromeOS. There's practically no
support software for them but I've never needed it.

s/​


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Entroware contact?

[Simon Greenwood]

If you're interested, PC Specialist (pc.co.uk) sell the same Clevo machines
for considerably less with similar configurations - they just don't support
Linux officially, although there is plenty of community support. I'm using
one with what has now become a combination of Xubuntu and Cinnamon desktop
and it works perfectly.

s/

On 11 November 2016 at 18:20, alan c  wrote:

> On 10/11/16 13:34, alan c wrote:
> > Anyone currently using, or had recent contact with Entroware?
> > https://www.entroware.com/store/
> > It has a nice site and an interesting range of products. A friend
> > contacted them recently, as I did also, with purchase inquiries,
> > however neither of us has had a reply. A year ago I had a useful reply
> > from an enquiry I made, but did not get a reply from a follow up
> > question, so I gave up. Until I tried again recently. It does not bode
> > well for viability.
> > Does anyone know more please?
> >
>
> Follow up:
>
> Reply received. A good succinct reply, and useful.
>
> In these days of greater transparency, I am still curious how it is
> such a reply takes 10 days or so to happen. My guess is they have a
> part time business model which I would have great respect for, but I
> would need to know a little more of the background before I advocated
> for them openly.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] No 16.04 USB audio Thread Closed

[Simon Greenwood]

On 5 August 2016 at 20:49, Michael <michael.penllerg...@btinternet.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 05/08/16 18:59, Michael wrote:
>
>
>
> On 05/08/16 18:34, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
>
> On 5 August 2016 at 18:20, Michael <michael.penllerg...@btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Both 12.04 and 14.04 supported USB audio, 16.04 does not. Why not ? was
>> there a file conflict presented by USB audio that caused its omission
>> from16.04 ? I have tried to find a "repair", nothing obvious seen. Is USB
>> audio going to be added to 16.04 or is it not being offered ? Tks, Michael.D
>>
>> ​
> It is supported, I'm running QSB Sound Science speakers here on 16.04.1.
> ​You will have to be specific about your audio device. ​
> It's a bit of a pain to get set up sometimes though.
> ​ It took me an hour or so to track down the best way of doing it​.
>
> ​If your device isn't visible in Sound Settings (or in the Sound control
> panel) open a terminal and see if it's visible to aplay -l. If it isn't
> then it may not be supported, but that would unusual. The simplest solution
> is to install gstreamer, which should make it available to pulseaudio. If
> not, get the details of your device and we should be able to work out how
> to get it working.
>
> s/
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> Trond USB audio, not working in 16.04, was good in 12.04 and 14.04, can
> you assist please. Tks, Michael
>
>
>
>
> Needed to try a few times, remove/reinsert, came good, tested on various,
> including Skype, good audio so transition from 12.04 to 16.04 now completed.
> The Trond USB audio device is reliable, does not fail in a few hours as
> some do, if computer 3.5mm jack has become intermittant, the Trond USB
> audio device is a good repair option. Michael.D
>
> --
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>
​As a note, these are available through Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aluminum-Headphone-Microphone-Plug-N-Play-Compatible/dp/B014ANW4VU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8=1470467685=8-1=trond+usb​,
which says they are Linux compatible. They should appear as CMedia CM108 on
your machine. It is often a case of unplugging and re-plugging the device
so that it is noticed.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] No 16.04 USB audio

[Simon Greenwood]

On 5 August 2016 at 18:20, Michael 
wrote:

> Both 12.04 and 14.04 supported USB audio, 16.04 does not. Why not ? was
> there a file conflict presented by USB audio that caused its omission
> from16.04 ? I have tried to find a "repair", nothing obvious seen. Is USB
> audio going to be added to 16.04 or is it not being offered ? Tks, Michael.D
>
> ​
It is supported, I'm running QSB Sound Science speakers here on 16.04.1.
​You will have to be specific about your audio device. ​
It's a bit of a pain to get set up sometimes though.
​ It took me an hour or so to track down the best way of doing it​.

​If your device isn't visible in Sound Settings (or in the Sound control
panel) open a terminal and see if it's visible to aplay -l. If it isn't
then it may not be supported, but that would unusual. The simplest solution
is to install gstreamer, which should make it available to pulseaudio. If
not, get the details of your device and we should be able to work out how
to get it working.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Messed up upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04

[Simon Greenwood]

On 1 August 2016 at 10:00, Michael 
wrote:

> Alan, Barry, or anybody who can help with an upgrade problem. I f the
> helper need to take over my computer to resolve, I'm happy with that.
>
> The update14.04-16-04,  was writing updated files when it stopped, a
> restart just defaults to login and login to the terminal command prompt.
> The help option delivers a screen full, I do not know if one of the options
> will help.
>
> 64bit dual boot with MS Windows 7. I do have a 14.10 32bit disc if that
> might help but am worried about loosing things.
>
> Any offers of help appreciated. Tks, Michael
>
> ​
You could boot from the DVD and take a backup of files by mounting the disk
partition and copying to a USB key or external device, and then reinstall.
You could even download a 16.04.1 ISO using Windows if you wanted.
That's probably
the easiest route to take.

s/​


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Hostnames

[Simon Greenwood]

On 12 July 2016 at 15:10, Nigel Verity  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm after a bit of enlightenment from anybody who knows more about
> networking than I do - which is probably most of you...
>
> I have a home network which connects to a radio-based broadband service
> (very reliable, incidentally). The data goes from the transceiver into a
> router which feeds several devices directly over wired ethernet. One of
> these is a switch which services other devices requiring wi-fi.
>
> When using Filezilla or command line SSH to connect one device to another,
> I find that some require the addition of ".local" to the remote hostname
> before it's recognised while others don't. For example my desktop is only
> recognised as "myDesktop.local", while my RPi2 is only recognised as
> "myRPi2", yet both use direct wired ethernet back to the router.
>
> Can anybody explain, please?
>
>
​Linux uses zeroconf/Bonjour for local network discovery. This uses the
pseudodomain .local ​for resolution within a network. The Linux
implementation is called

​Avahi, for reference. ​
​You may find that your Pi has the line 'search .local' in /etc/resolv.conf
whereas Ubuntu doesn't include it by default​. You can add it in the
network config if you want to standardise.

​s/​

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

[Simon Greenwood]

On 22 June 2016 at 08:44, Pete Smout  wrote:

>
> On 22 Jun 2016 06:13, "Gareth France" 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 22/06/16 01:10, Liam Proven wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you have the FB client on your smartphone? Did you let it access
> >> your contacts? Then it knows who you called, knows his number and made
> >> the connection.
> >
> >
> > As I understand it this would not be possible on the Ubuntu phone.
>
> There's is a great advert for the Ubuntu phone
>
>
​
A similar thing happened to me and I only use Facebook in a browser so it's
probably either that someone else has looked you up or, more likely,
they've allowed the Facebook app to access their contacts on their phone.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seeing double with new hard drive

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On 19 June 2016 at 19:57, Gareth France 
wrote:

> I have a dual hard drive setup in my laptop thanks to a secondary cradle
> where the DVD rom should be. I have decided to replace my primary hard
> drive as it is virtually dead. I have installed the new drive in the
> secondary caddy and begun to copy my home directory in it's entirety across
> to the new drive.
>
> The old drive installed here was sdb and my primary drive sda, weirdly
> though now my primary is sdb and this new one is sda. I decided while
> waiting for the copy to complete I would have a nose around in the Disks
> utility. Firstly I was surprised to see that apparently both drives were
> exactly the same make and model. Something fishy is surely going on there!
>
> Both drives have exactly the same SMART data, showing a pre-failure
> condition. In summary it appears that Disks is displaying two copies of my
> primary drive, rather than the genuine data for my second drive.
>
> Where might I report this? And before I remove my primary drive and move
> on to installing Ubuntu is there anything I should do to gather data n this
> issue?
>
>
​T​ry using smartctl from the command line - smartctl -a /dev/sda or
/dev/sdb should give you the correct data.

The drive device is mutable as scanning is done at that hardware level so
if you have more than one disk the only reliable identifier is the serial
number.

​I've noticed this sort of thing with Disks before and it does only seem to
be reliable with a single fixed disk device - I suspect it may cache fixed
disk data and adding a new disk which has recreated the devices may confuse
it. The other option is that your existing disk has failed or has stopped
responding to smartctl, so testing from the command line should show the
correct state.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

[Simon Greenwood]

On 18 June 2016 at 21:53, Mark Fraser  wrote:

>
> > On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser  wrote:
> > > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT
> > > partition
> > > table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I used
> > > rsync
> > > to copy some files onto it.
> > >
> > > The next day, I was unable to mount the drive and so I ran fsck on it.
> > > This
> > > failed pass 5: Checking group summary information with lots of block
> > > bitmap
> > > differences.
> > >
> > > I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block
> differences
> > > were
> > > back.
> > >
> > > Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could
> > > copy
> > > files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors
> > > due to
> > > it being on USB or is the drive faulty?
>
> > What did you use to create the partition? The only thing that I have
> found
> > that works properly is gdisk.
>
> I'd originally used KDE Partition Manager, but tried again with gdisk.
> Still
> getting the Block bitmap differences: .
>
>
​How is the disk mounted? If you're just using automount consider giving it
a dedicated mount point with a ​fixed directory (ie /mnt/disk or similar)
and telling mount what the filetype is. That said, I have seen this issue
exactly using rsync and wrongly formatted 3Tb drives in a fixed backplane
so I don't think it's the connectivity - but then again an external GPT
disk could indicate a bug. Maybe try partitioning and formatting,
disconnecting and reconnecting the drive and mounting it, which may show
issues in dmesg or syslog.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

[Simon Greenwood]

What did you use to create the partition? The only thing that I have found
that works properly is gdisk.

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On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser  wrote:

> Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT
> partition
> table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I used
> rsync
> to copy some files onto it.
>
> The next day, I was unable to mount the drive and so I ran fsck on it. This
> failed pass 5: Checking group summary information with lots of block bitmap
> differences.
>
> I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block differences
> were
> back.
>
> Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could
> copy
> files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors
> due to
> it being on USB or is the drive faulty?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SFTP Problem

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On 27 March 2016 at 09:35, Paul Waring <p...@xk7.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:41:22AM +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> >Filezilla is very strict about SSL/TLS support. If the server says it
> >supports TLS then Filezilla tries to use it and will reject the
> connection
> >if it fails. The workaround is to set the connection to use 'Plain
> FTP' in
> >Filezilla connection manager. This is probably OK In your setup but
> the
> >correct thing to do would be to make sure that openssh is up to date
> and
> >configured correctly. There are documents online to test and make
> >recommendations but I think in your case it would be just an exercise
> >unless the machine is going to be internet facing.
>
> SFTP does not involve SSL/TLS, it uses the SSH protocol. Despite the
> unfortunate similarities in name, SFTP is completely different to FTP
> (and FTPS, which is FTP over TLS).
> ​. An ​
>
>
>
​Filezilla is still strict about it, so it's likely that the ciphers or
client certificates need bringing up to date​. The exact error should be
visible in Filezilla's connection log, but should also have been fixed in
15.10 since release so an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and a restart
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SFTP Problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 26 March 2016 at 20:24, Nigel Verity  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've just installed Xubuntu 15.10 on an Acer netbook. I've installed
> Xubuntu many times before but not 15.10. It works fine.
>
> My standard routine is to next install openSSH-server and SSHFS, then
> start the SSH service.
>
> The situation now is that I can SSH into the box and I can mount its file
> system on a remote computer using SSHFS. For all that success, though, I
> cannot access the box from any other using Filezilla (SFTP). It just hangs
> then times out. I know it's not a problem with Filezilla per se as all my
> other laptops can "see" each other through it.
>
> Can anybody suggest where the cause may lie? Permissions perhaps?
>
> ​
Filezilla is very strict about SSL/TLS support. If the server says it
supports TLS then Filezilla tries to use it and will reject the connection
if it fails. The workaround is to set the connection to use 'Plain FTP' in
Filezilla connection manager. This is probably OK In your setup but the
correct thing to do would be to make sure that openssh is up to date and
configured correctly. There are documents online to test and make
recommendations but I think in your case it would be just an exercise
unless the machine is going to be internet facing.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

[Simon Greenwood]

As Robert says, the installation process has failed as it assumed that
initctl was there and probably created an upstart service but as initctl
isn't available it won't work, so it's probably a case of converting the
upstart service to systemctl, which I'm sure is possible but I don't know
how off the top of my head.


On 27 February 2016 at 16:15, Robert McWilliam  wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016, at 15:53, Barry Drake wrote:
> > Hi Simon   The 'start' command in the systemd.sh script is:
> > start_service()
> > {
> >  systemctl start symform${1}.service
> > }
> >
> > systemctl is very different in its operation.  The 'start' command won't
> > listen to a port.  There doesn't seem to be a way to set up listening to
> > port 59234 using that command.  Using it the way the systemd script
> > tries to, produces the error "Failed to start symformconfigure.service:
> > Unit symformconfigure.service failed to load: No such file or directory".
> >
> > I imagine the guy who wrote the script assumed the command was a direct
> > replacement for initctl.  It obviously is not.  I've saved the man page
> > as a text file, and read through it carefully.  There doesn't seem to be
> > a command that performs the action I need.  So far, I haven't found
> > anything that will do what initctl used to do. The initctl command was
> > used to make the port open the register page of the symform web site,
> > and return the information in the form of a log.  I've been trying to
> > find something that acts in the same way, but so far, no luck.
> >
>
> systemctl and initctl are ways of managing daemons/services/whatever you
> want to call them under the different init systems (I think systemd and
> upstart respectively). Those commands would only start a service if it
> was already set up and it looks like the set up isn't happening for the
> systemd version that you were then trying to start. I suspect there is a
> similar if-elif-else block earlier in the process that will set up the
> services that are going to be used later and it's similarly matching
> upstart rather than systemd so putting in configuration that would work
> with upstart (if that had been what your system were using).
>
> I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search
> the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic
> around that will pick the systemd option.
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

[Simon Greenwood]

As it says, initctl is part of upstart, which has been deprecated for
systemd. However, the components are still there so the script's criteria
are met apart from initctl not being installed. You could comment out the
first if statement in the platform script and replace the 'elif' at the
start of the second statement with 'if', which should fire the
application's systemd script, and maybe pass that back to the devs.

On 27 February 2016 at 11:57, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com>
wrote:

> On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the
>> scripts that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your
>> own computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have
>> anything running on it in normal use so it won't respond to a HTTP request
>> in a web browser.
>>
> Hi Simon   Having found the page describing the use of the initctl
> command, I can't find a package or anything else, such as the code.  I
> gather it used to be included with upstart, and that has changed.  There
> must be a workaround using another command, but so far, I'm no finding
> anything.
>
> Regards,Barry.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

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That's the answer - there should be. There will be something in the scripts
that activates it. If you don't know, 127.0.0.1 is localhost, your own
computer, so it will always ping but it's unlikely that you have anything
running on it in normal use so it won't respond to a HTTP request in a web
browser.

On 26 February 2016 at 19:45, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com>
wrote:

> On 26/02/16 18:21, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which
>> you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that
>> it's an ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been
>> shut down previously or there might be something else on that port.
>>
> Hi Simon   Thanks.  I tried that - there is nothing listening on that
> port.  I also tried 127.0.0.1 in the browser with no port following.  The
> result is the same 'unable to connect'.  But the URL pings OK - so I'm
> really mystified.
>
> Regards,Barry.
> <http://127.0.0.1:59234>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

[Simon Greenwood]

It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which you
should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that it's an
ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been shut down
previously or there might be something else on that port.

On 26 February 2016 at 16:10, Barry Drake 
wrote:

> Hi   Any pointer for me in trying to solve a problem. When I attemp to
> install the Symform cloud software,  on 15.04, when it makes a call to
> 127.0.0.1:59234 to register the user, Firefox comes up with a "Unable to
> connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at
> 127.0.0.1:59234"
>
> In 14.04, it does the job properly, and gets to the Symform login page.
> I've tried other browsers, and done enough testing to determine that this
> is a problem in the Ubuntu infrastructure, and not in the browser.  Any
> thoughts on how this might be resolved?  I think I might be able to use a
> workaround, and register using 14.04, them grab the registration
> information from that place, but I really want to find out what is
> happening.  The entire Linux version of Symform is written in bash shell
> scripts, so I've been able to check through those.  I can ping 127.0.0.1
> and get no problem, so it has to be down to some change in Ubuntu itself.
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[Simon Greenwood]

There is a known issue with the Audacity package in 15.10 in that it was
built against the wrong version of wxWidgets so this may be related. The
Audacity devs advise using their PPA and release.

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:15 Colin Law  wrote:

> On 13 January 2016 at 18:07, Barry Drake 
> wrote:
> >>Not sure what you mean by gnome menus in the top panel. Can you be
> >>more explicit? Are you running Ubuntu with Unity?
> >
> > Hi Colin .   When you move the mouse pointer into the top panel, many
> > applications show a menu on the left of the top panel. Libreoffice is one
> > example, but the one I'm having a problem with is Audacity.  The menu
> works
> > OK in Thunderbird, but not in the others. I suppose I'll report it as and
> > 'Audacity' bug, and see what response I get.
>
> Both Audacity and LibreOffice ok on fully updated 16.04 here.  Have
> you tried doing another update in case you you updated whilst the
> repos themselves were being updated so you did not get all that you
> should have?
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

[Simon Greenwood]

I remember you saying it was a Lenovo - there is an application called tpb
that enables the special keys in Thinkpads which might be installed on
Lenovo hardware - that's worth a check.

s/

On 16 December 2015 at 09:57, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com>
wrote:

> On 16/12/15 08:06, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> It may be specific to your model or make as Ctrl-F3 doesn't do anything
>> on my Asus S400CA by default. I would suspect that a keyboard driver for
>> your make has been installed so finding that and disabling it might work.
>>
>
> I'll take a look when I've got a bit more time, but as it's a Lenovo
> laptop, I think it's very unlikely it needs a keyboard driver.  It's never
> shown anything in the 'additional drivers'  app.
>
> I've now programmed all the carols as +[numeric]  I only needed 9,
> but if I'd wanted more than ten, I'd have used +[alphabetic].  I
> already have +x as the 'kill music' key.  Thanks anyway,
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

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It may be specific to your model or make as Ctrl-F3 doesn't do anything on
my Asus S400CA by default. I would suspect that a keyboard driver for your
make has been installed so finding that and disabling it might work.


On 16 December 2015 at 07:40, Barry Drake 
wrote:

> On 16/12/15 07:29, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
>
> However, the fact that this combination wakes the machine up from sleep
>> leads me to ask whether the F3 key is the hardware sleep/wake key
>>
>
> No.  +F4 on this laptop is the hardware sleep key combination.
> The issue is definitely due to Ubuntu hard coding.  So far, I think I'm
> going to get away with +1 to 0 .  I'll start entering them
> and see how far I get.  For this occasion, I need less than ten keys, so
> hopefully 
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[Bug 1524912] [NEW] Constant high CPU since version 42 update

[Simon Greenwood]

Public bug reported:

Firefox is slow to respond and showing >100% CPU In top/atop since the
update to 42. Can be reproduced on two machines, an Acer Revo RL80 with
dual core Celeron 1.50Ghz, and an Asus S400CA laptop with quad cord i7
at 1.90Ghz. The Revo is running 15.10 and the Asus 15.04, currently
being upgraded. Both were working fine until the last couple of days.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: firefox 42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-18.22-lowlatency 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-18-lowlatency x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USERPID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2:  simong 2367 F pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  simong 2367 F pulseaudio
BrokenPermissions: stylishsync (0o400)
BuildID: 20151030083518
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Dec 10 16:43:27 2015
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini 
or extensions.sqlite)
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-18 (357 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0  proto static  metric 100 
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link  metric 1000 
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.68  metric 
100 
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.122.1
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
MostRecentCrashID: bp-f26990dc-8766-4797-bc7d-9522b2151117
Plugins:
 IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.5.3 (1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1)) - 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so 
(icedtea-7-plugin)
 Shockwave Flash - /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
PrefSources:
 prefs.js
 [Profile]/extensions/supp...@lastpass.com/defaults/preferences/defaults.js
 
[Profile]/extensions/https-everywh...@eff.org/defaults/preferences/preferences.js
 [Profile]/extensions/fvdme...@gmail.com/defaults/preferences/fvd.js
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=42.0/20151030083518 (In use)
RelatedPackageVersions: icedtea-7-plugin 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-f26990dc-8766-4797-bc7d-9522b2151117
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-11-30 (10 days ago)

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug wily

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] $5 Computer

[Simon Greenwood]

On 26 November 2015 at 13:28, Colin Law  wrote:

> On 26 November 2015 at 13:17, Alan Lord  wrote:
> > Slightly OT but I thought it interesting in case anyone missed the
> > announcement this morning:
> >
> > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/
>
> That's outrageous.  Free computer with magazine indeed.  What is the
> world coming to?
>

​And we used to get excited about free CDs...
​

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment

[Simon Greenwood]

I found due to a similar query recently that wired connections take
precedent over wifi connections in Network Manager so all traffic should
have been going across the wired connection.

s/

On 17 November 2015 at 14:24, Nigel Verity  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have arrived at a situation where I have 2 routers in my home network.
>
> Router A provides the connection back to my iSP while router B serves
> purely as a wireless access point. B is connected to A.
>
> I connect wired devices to router A through powerline adaptors and
> wireless devices talk to router B.
>
> There is no real need for the wired and wireless devices to talk to each
> other, so the fact that they don't have sight of each other is not a
> problem.
>
> I recently discovered that my Dell laptop routinely had both wired and a
> wireless interfaces active. This means it was accessing both routers
> simultaneously.
>
> The wireless connection on the Dell is now switched off, but I can't say
> I've noticed any change to internet performance for better or worse. The
> route duplication seems to have been managed perfectly well without any
> explicit configuration on my part.
>
> For my own enlightenment can anybody with more networking knowledge than
> me (which is practically everyone) suggest how my internet traffic is
> likely to have been routed across these two connections? I would have
> expected contention at the very least.
>
> I doubt that it's relevant in this instance but the Dell runs Ubuntu Mate
> 15.04
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 22 September 2015 at 19:49, Steve Mynott  wrote:

> Anyone any recommendations for very cheap laptops (ideally netbook
> like form factor) with good linux support?
>
> I assume netbooks themselves are pretty dead (which is a pity since
> some had decent keyboards).
>
> Has anyone found anything similar?  I suppose a chromebook running the
> libfakeroot linux might be the closest although most of them have very
> restricted SSD space.
>
> Any suggestions?
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Some of the Windows with Bing laptops might be worth a punt, as far as I
can see they're just regular laptops with what used to be known as Windows
Home on them and there a few netbook factor models around.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] High Capacity SD cards

[Simon Greenwood]

Mechanically I can't see any reason why not as the cards should be broadly
compatible with any reader although if you're running 32-bit I assume you
have older hardware which might not. However, at the current price I'm not
sure if it's worth it as a backup solution.

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 08:23 Nigel Verity  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am considering using high capacity SD cards (256 or 512Gb) for backups
> instead of the external USB hard drives that I use at present.
>
> Can anybody assure me that SD cards of this capacity will actually be
> usable? Is there any constraint imposed by the OS (32/64bit), or by the
> laptop hardware (built-in reader vs external)?
>
> I am currently running 14.10, 32 bit.
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

[Simon Greenwood]

One thing that occurred to me is that the time might be wrong somewhere,
which can confuse the relationship between a server and a client and it
could be that Thunderbird thinks that the messages are dated incorrectly.
You might see something to that effect in the debug logs.

s/

On 4 September 2015 at 09:54, Dianne  wrote:

> On 03/09/15 20:28, Barry Drake wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there is a bug in Thunderbird that causes a problem with pop3
>> accounts?  If the problem account is your only one using pop3, I'd be
>> inclined to think that might be the problem.  If you are fairly sure it is
>> a Thunderbird problem, check out if all your other accounts are imap.  If
>> so, ubuntu-bug thunderbird, using the terminal would be the way to go, I
>> imagine.
>>
> That's the strangest thing - all the accounts are pop3, but all the others
> are acting normally, including one that's on the same server. And if I
> start in safe mode the problem persists, but goes away if I use Help>
> restart in safe mode!
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Enabling Wake on Lan on Ubuntu laptop

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On 25 June 2015 at 06:53, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi guys,

 Posting after a very long time.. :)

 Ive run into a bit of a problem trying to wake my laptop (connected via
 wifi) from suspend using my Android phone. Ideally I would like it to wake
 as soon as my phone is connected to my wifi. For this purpose ive
 downloaded the WOL app and configured (correctly i think). My WOL is
 configured to G so i know ive turned it on.

 I can put it in suspend using the XBMC remote app.

 Im using a Virgin Superhub router.

 The only thing I can think of is when I wake the laptop manually it shows
 as Wifi being disconnected. It will then proceed to connect to the wifi. I
 dont know if this bit is important but i thought id mention it.

 Any idea what I may need to do please?


Generally speaking it looks like it isn't possible over wifi for a couple
of reasons: for one it just doesn't work as the 'magic packet' can't be
sent. For two, a suspended laptop is effectively off, just with its state
saved and isn't listening to anything. My laptop certainly needs to connect
to wifi when woken up and I would assume most others do as well.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Enabling Wake on Lan on Ubuntu laptop

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On 25 June 2015 at 08:31, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sounds like im stuck then!

 Any other way of enabling that laptop to auto wake once I get home?



I'm going to have a play with this on my desktop, which is on ethernet, as
it would be cool to have it power up from my phone or from a Tasker event
but the only way I can see it working reliably from what I have read is to
connect a dongle to a physical port, either ethernet or USB.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Enabling Wake on Lan on Ubuntu laptop

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On 25 June 2015 at 08:05, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:

 Absolutely.

 But can i not set the wifi to On even though the laptop is suspended?


That might work if you can enable it in BIOS or the laptop has a physical
switch for WLAN but usually if it's on a keyboard key it's a kernel module
and won't be available in suspend.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

[Simon Greenwood]

I came across PeppermintOS[1] recently, which is an LXDE based distribution
but a nicely designed one that replaces Firefox with Chromium and has an
inbuilt system for Chrome app integration. I'm running it on a four year
old Lenovo AMD netbook which was starting to struggle with Xubuntu and it's
increased its battery life if nothing else.

1. http://peppermintos.com/

s/

On 25 June 2015 at 10:24, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 On 25/06/15 10:13, Colin Law wrote:

  Have you tried ubuntu mate?  I have found it good on old PCs


 Thanks Colin    I never even spotted it.  I'm downloading it right
 now!  It looks as though it is well up to what I want to do.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome Color Chooser

[Simon Greenwood]

On 23 June 2015 at 16:22, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hi

 I'm so impressed with Ubuntu MATE that I've finally abandoned Xubuntu as
 my go-to distribution. The MATE desktop has tools for tailoring the colours
 so you have a high level of control over its appearance. However some
 objects, such as certain toolbars, seem immune to these tools. I've been
 told to try gnome-color-chooser which I have installed. Unfortunately I am
 struggling to find how to use it.

 It is not really intuitive, and the only links to supposed documentation
 I've found are all dead or misleading.

 Does anybody have any experience with this tool and/or can point me
 towards some kind of user guide?



You will need the HTML colour value from Gnome Colour Chooser, that's the
string like #FF that the chooser displays for a selected colour.

However, it's not easy to find all the colour settings in MATE (as with GTK
in general) so it can rather be trial and error. That or people who make
GTK themes are a lot more patient than I am.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

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On 23 June 2015 at 09:56, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 On 19/06/15 08:29, Stuart Ward wrote:

 Wednesday evenings it is open to the public.


 Yesterday, I collected a computer from someone the local Freecycle group.
 It had no power supply or hard drive, but otherwise is OK.  I rigged it up
 with an old spare power supply and it booted from a DVD. Torios is
 fantastic - but why doesn't the first screen tell you that you'll almost
 certainly have to use the nomodeset parameter with any older gear?  This
 computer is an old Sony - Pentium 4 a700 MHz and 256 Mb.  But I have had to
 use nomodeset on a far newer and faster box that I've been running 14.04 on
 

 I'd have thought that on something like Torios, this would have been a
 'must have' with an extra option to boot with nomodeset and a little notice
 about why ...

 But yes - Torios is really good.  Strange that the Torios terminal doesn't
 recognise lshw though.  Any idea why this might be?


Probably because it's a minimal install and the expectation could be that
you don't need it for a desktop system. I find in my day job that their
provisioning varies on servers, and 99% of ours are CentOS.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Pre installed - HP 'standard images' 'may not work' WTF

[Simon Greenwood]

It's probably more about the training that HP's support teams have been
given. Until very recently the support cycle of most PCs would assume that
they had the same OS throughout their lifespan because few people even
upgrade the version of Windows they use, so to allow the people on the
phones to be able to support the new laptops, the decision has been to go
with an old (but still supported) LTS release and to issue a caveat that
new releases 'might not' work but from experience the probability is fairly
low.

The big hardware companies have been very conservative with regard to
Linux. In a project I worked on in 2009 HP were advocating RHEL 4 as a
server platform when RHEL 5 was two years old. They've probably only just
got onto 5, or possibly 6.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Phone questions

[Simon Greenwood]

You might want to hold off until Monday as Meizu look like they are about
to announce theirs.

However, there is a thread about experience on this list and the general
consensus suggests that it isn't quite ready for primetime.

On 15 May 2015 at 09:56, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 as ubuntu Phone is now on sale generally, before deciding whether or not
 to purchase, I have some questions.

 1. What email, calendar, tasks and contacts apps are available?
 2. Does it come with an ODF viewer/editor?
 3. Presumably the apps in (1) will sync with Caldav/Carddav servers?
 4. What's the build quality liks compared to, say, Samsung S4 or a Sony
 Xperia?
 5. How good is the camera?
 6. How much storage is available to the User out of the box?

 I live in N Staffs - is there anyone on the list that lives reasonably
 nearby who has one, that I could come along and have a look?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

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On 3 May 2015 at 10:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote:

 With a little help from Paul Sladen I got it sorted thanks. My only issue
 now is that the installed package only runs if you call it using the full
 path /opt/cliftontestsuite/primetest. Just typing primetest an any random
 location does not work. Is this by design or have I screwed up?


Obvious perhaps but do you have /opt in your $PATH?

A packaged binary should really be installed in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin
to avoid that issue.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

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On 3 May 2015 at 10:55, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote:

 The packaging tutorial ends with:

 Basic DOs and Dont's for packaging for Commercial Applications

 DOs

 Please use /opt/application_name/ as your application root directory


 I have no idea if it is in $PATH but this is a stock install and I need
 this to just work on a stock install.


You can type 'echo $PATH' from a command line to find that out, but I would
think not. My desktop $PATH is this:

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

The convention is for commercial software to install in /opt but that would
appear to assume that you are building a fully fledged GUI-based
application that would be called from a desktop menu, not a command line.

Your immediate fix is to run 'export $PATH=$PATH:/opt' from a terminal but
I would change the install path to /usr/local.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Implications Of Secure Boot Lockout

[Simon Greenwood]

The point of the statement is that Microsoft and Microsoft alone have
relaxed the option for OEMs, that is hardware makers, to allow Secure Boot
to be disabled. I can see that this might lead to appliance-type machines
such as cheap Windows with Bing laptops being shipped 'locked' because they
are effectively subsidised by the use of Bing and the crapware that gets
stuck on them, and in fact I was rather surprised that this wasn't the case
all ready. However, there are few OEMs for whom the resulting negative
publicity would be outweighed by the advantage of just allowing Windows so
I can't see it happening as a default. Yes, it's possible that 'open'
machines may cost more (or, as is happening now, that appliance type
machines cost less) but the OEM is in the job of selling hardware and even
Microsoft are coming around to the belief that selling software isn't the
future for the company any more and that its ability to dictate to hardware
makers is diminished by the other players in the market.

s/

On 6 April 2015 at 12:38, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hi

 I have been reading recently that Microsoft are removing the requirement
 for hardware manufacturers to provide a secure boot off switch, in order
 to gain Windows 10 accreditation. If this comes to pass it will place Linux
 distros entirely at the mercy of Microsoft to sign their authentication
 keys, otherwise they will be shut out from installation on mainstream
 computers.

 Given that Microsoft look like making a lot less money out of the Windows
 OS itself over the coming years, it seems reasonable to assume that they
 will seek to maximise whatever revenue they can generate. This points
 towards eventually shutting out even approved Linux distributions.
 Presumably Apple can do exactly the same to prevent installation on Macs.

 If this comes to pass I have to admit to not having a clear view of where
 this will leave us. The only possibilities I can see are:

 1) Being confined to installing on Chromebooks
 2) Being forced to use more expensive specialist hardware (e.g hardware
 designed primarily to be a server)
 3) A move to ARM-powered devices

 I stress I am not an expert on this so my outlook may be unduly
 pessimistic, but it would be interesting to get the views of anyone with
 more insight into the implications.

 Could something akin to Wubi be a way around the problem, albeit far from
 ideal?

 I suppose ultimately I am looking for some reassurance that Linux on the
 desktop is not being forced onto a road to nowhere.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 6 March 2015 at 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonbp@owncube.email
wrote:

 Hi all,
 Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and
 why...

 Cheers

 Gordon


Motorola Moto G, cheap, unlocked, 4G and backed by Google for a couple of
years, although the promised upgrade to Android 5 hasn't materialised yet.
I would *like* an Ubuntu phone, ideally something like the Edge, which I
suppose might appear in the next couple of years.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Minor SSH Issue

[Simon Greenwood]

Check that avahi-daemon is installed and running. Make sure that the
machine knows its own name (try 'host machinename.local' from a terminal.

I recently updated my laptop to 14.10 and the name service stopped working
on it. It turned out that my network favours IPv6 as I have it configured,
and 14.10 disabled IPv6 support in avahi for some reason.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

[Simon Greenwood]

On 29 January 2015 at 09:01, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 28 January 2015 at 23:01, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
 wrote:
  I have just tested filling out a form using Evince (aka Document Viewer)
 and
  it seems to work OK, but only if you download the form.  If the PDF form
 is
  just open in Firefox you cannot fill out the form.
 
  The form I used was the N1 Claim Form from
 
 http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/HMCTS/GetForm.do?court_forms_id=338
 
  Is there something special about Corporation Tax forms?

 Some pdf's with forms are ok, some are not.  See the bug I linked to
 for more detail
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/321720


I believe this is a proprietary component of Adobe Reader, I know the issue
has been around for a long time as I think I came up against it the last
time I tried to complete the CT form like this, six or seven years ago.
Since then I've used a web service and it just works although why HMRC
can't actually provide one themselves is a mystery.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

[Simon Greenwood]

On 29 January 2015 at 10:53, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
wrote:

 I have gotten along just fine since 2006 without having to touch a
 non-Ubuntu system. If it is possible I like to keep it that way. It works
 for me and every time I am forced to use a Windows system it hammers home
 exactly why I stopped using them.

 The version of Adobe Reader I'm using is working nicely. Now if only I
 could find a replacement for HMRC...

 Unfortunately their helpline is an 0845 number so I can't call them (the
 only phone I have is a pay as you go mobile) otherwise I would have a bit
 of a go.

 On 29/01/15 10:49, Colin Law wrote:

 I meant to print it at the library rather than filling it in there.  I
 am just trying to help, not suggesting that the current situation is
 ideal.  Apparently, though, with Adobe not publishing the format it
 makes it difficult, to say to least, for an open source solution.
 HMRC should not be using a format that requires proprietary software.




I hope that it's changed since, but when HMRC introduced electronic filing
in about 2002 they offered identification by certificate and the
certificates only worked with Windows and I really have no idea how they
even managed that. As it is I believe Gnucash now works with the web filing
service although I use Freeagent.com, which is worth the £25 a month for a
small company (cheaper than a human being generally).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icons go missing ...

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On 12 January 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 Hi there   I'm running 15.04 testing 64bit, on a desktop pc. For
month or two now, the Unity launcher bar loses icons after (usually) the
second launch of a particular program during a session.  Firefox and
Thunderbird are two such icons.  In each case, the specified icon is
replaced by a grey square with a question mark. After re-boot, all icons
are restored.  I'd like to file a bug report, but I don't know whether this
is a Unity bug, or something that is part of something Unity uses.

 Any thoughts?


Have you tested something like Plank to see if it's a desktop issue? It
sounds like something is losing state and it could either be the desktop or
the container.

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month or two now, the Unity launcher bar loses icons after (usually) the
second launch of a particular program during a session.  Firefox and
Thunderbird are two such icons.  In each case, the specified icon is
replaced by a grey square with a question mark. After re-boot, all icons
are restored.  I'd like to file a bug report, but I don't know whether this
is a Unity bug, or something that is part of something Unity uses.

Any thoughts?

Regards,Barry.

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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: How old is your computer?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 5 January 2015 at 17:28, TT Mooney ttmoo...@ttmooney.com wrote:

 On 05/01/15 16:46, TT Mooney wrote:
  I'm in the process of founding a startup, and even though I've kept my
  current company as Linux on the desktop shop for 10 years, the startup
  is going Mac. Because it's easier to maintain -- because the hardware
  vendor cares about making sure it 'just works'.

 Amusingly enough, I just found this:

 http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground

 I'm not sure that I agree, but I'm not sure that I don't. Losing apt-get
 is a major PITA, but reliable wireless is a pretty cool feature.

 travis


I'd be inclined to agree with that - I had several Macs from about 2000 to
2008 and it the OS really was a great working environment simply because it
was a desktop Unix that Just Worked, but aspects of the OS have become
obfuscated and almost disabled without some work in recent years. The cost
of entry has gone up somewhat too (and my disposable income for such things
has gone down). I'd also argue that for most people changing an OS is still
not a trivial thing and PCs come with Windows on and Macs come with MacOS
on. MacOS is still a large part of the reason for having a Mac, just not
enough for me any more so I've ended up with Xubuntu and I've been
generally diligent enough in the last few years to make sure that my kit
will work and that I can customise it how I want it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building module ....

[Simon Greenwood]

On 20 December 2014 at 15:37, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com
wrote:

 Hi there ...  I want to use a fax on my desktop computer.  I'm running
 15.04 testing.  I bought a USB fax modem with Conexant chipset - Linux
 compatible.  The enclosed disk has a .deb driver package.  So far so good
   On trying to use the package, I get the following error:
 No pre-built modules for: Ubuntu-Vivid linux-3.16.0-28-generic x86_64-SMP
 Trying to automatically build the driver modules...
 Building modules for kernel 3.16.0-28-generic, using source directory
 /lib/modules/3.16.0-28-generic/build.

 It then throws the following fatal error:
 make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.16.0-28-generic'
   CC [M]  /usr/lib/dgcmodem/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.o
 In file included from /usr/lib/dgcmodem/modules/mod_dgcusbdcp.c:57:0:
 /usr/lib/dgcmodem/modules/GPL/oscompat.h:125:24: fatal error:
 asm/system.h: No such file or directory
  #include asm/system.h

 Looking around, I see that this header is no longer current.  I have no
 idea what it contains, and can find very little help online as to what
 information this header used to contain.  Any ideas please?

 Kind regards,Barry.


asm/system.h is quite commonly used in older telephony device drivers and
has been removed according to this commit to the kernel:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f05e798ad4c09255f590f5b2c00a7ca6c172f983

It looks it's some kind of hangover from days when serial devices were more
common and is therefore probably specific to some chipsets and it looks
like it's been regarded as being in the wrong place. You may have a better
chance building directly from source and either commenting out the #include
statement for it as it could be redundant or finding the last version of
the kernel that had it in, probably a late 3.3 release by the look of it
and putting the file in place so that the compiler can find it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

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On 6 December 2014 at 15:51, George Tripp luggeo...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:





 - Original Message -
  From: Barry Titterton titterton.ba...@gmail.com
  To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com; lubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com
  Cc:
  Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2014, 15:26
  Subject: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?
 
  Hi All,
 
  How old is the oldest computer that you have in regular use?
 
  I was prompted to ask this question by a comment that I over heard while
  doing some Linux advocacy at my local community centre. They run
  beginners computer courses (Windows only) so I popped along to see if
  anyone would be interested in Linux and FOSS. There was a conversation
  which included the statement If your machine is 3 to 4 years old it
  must be getting worn out, so you need to think about getting a new one.
  This got me thinking about my own machines and I realised that my main
  desktop PC (Pentium D 3.2GHz), that I use every day, will be 9 years old
  in February, and it is still capable of running Ubuntu 14.04 very well.
 
  So how old is your machine?.
 
  Regards,
 
  Barry T
 
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 Hi All

 This PC I'm usng at the moment is a 2002 Packard Bell. I'm running Lubuntu
 14.04. Was running standard (Unity) 12.04 until recently but there were
 display issues, (Still get issues with LXDE albeit different ones.) Suspect
 I might be reaching the end of the machine's useful life.

 I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier to
 provide PC / laptops which are definitely compatible with Ubuntu. I'd be a
 potential customer. Although I have installed it on a variety of machines
 over the years I still feel reluctant to spend £500 or so on something,
 invalidate the warrantry and have no certainty that it will run the
 operating system I'd like to use.

 Perhaps I'm a wimp.:)


Changing an operating system doesn't invalidate a warranty. It can cause
helpdesks to panic but it doesn't affect physical issues, whatever they say.

Canonical have a certification programme here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/

but the standardisation of hardware means that there are very few laptop
and desktop components that will have issues these days. Another company to
consider is Taiwanese maker Clevo, which System 76 machines are based on
and are fully supported with their free driver package.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

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On 4 December 2014 at 15:26, Barry Titterton titterton.ba...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hi All,

 How old is the oldest computer that you have in regular use?

 I was prompted to ask this question by a comment that I over heard while
 doing some Linux advocacy at my local community centre. They run
 beginners computer courses (Windows only) so I popped along to see if
 anyone would be interested in Linux and FOSS. There was a conversation
 which included the statement If your machine is 3 to 4 years old it
 must be getting worn out, so you need to think about getting a new one.
 This got me thinking about my own machines and I realised that my main
 desktop PC (Pentium D 3.2GHz), that I use every day, will be 9 years old
 in February, and it is still capable of running Ubuntu 14.04 very well.

 So how old is your machine?.


Being a geek I tend to cycle hardware every 3-4 years at most, so my oldest
computer in use is a Lenovo Edge 11 that I bought about three and half
years ago. It's running Xubuntu 14.04 happily.

I need to do something with my wife's laptop-before-last which I think is
10-12 years old and very underspecced. I might see if Lubuntu will play
with it.

In my day job I did come across a server a few years ago at a mobile phone
company that had an uptime approaching 12 years ,which was maintained by
the sysadmins as a badge of honour. I like to hope that it's still running.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

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On 24 November 2014 at 08:03, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
wrote:

 I was led to believe by a rep of the company who makes these that this is
 not the case. He was happily discussing with my other companies who have
 done the same.


Something just occurred to me about the format: it's quite possible that
it's the Access data engine, a lot of embedded Windows software tends to
use that. There doesn't appear to be any free/free method of using them any
more though, although I think LibreOffice can read them and export them.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre occurrence when attempting to install Ubuntu

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On 19 November 2014 12:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote:

  Hi all,
 I’ve just purchased an Acer Aspire E3
 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-E3-112-11-6-inch-Notebook/dp/B00NWHUXYGthat
 came with Windows 8.1 with Bing.
 I have a good bootable USB stick with 14.04 on it, from which I have
 installed several times on different machines.
 Here’s what I did:

1.  Created unallocated space on the HDD within Windows
2. Booted from the USB
3. Clicked on “Install”
4. Chose “Something else” in the next dialog
5. Created a / partition, a “Home” partition and a Swap area.
6. Clicked on “Install”


 The install went just like any other install that I’ve done over the last
 few years.
 When it finished, I clicked on the “Restart” button.
 The machine restarts, and goes straight into Windows. No sign of the
 Ubuntu install at all.
 If I examine the HDD in Disk management within Windows, there are no
 formatted partitions in the unallocated space at all.
 AFAIK Windows 8.1 with Bing is no different at all to “normal” Windows 8.1
 so can anyone tell me what’s going on? (I’ve tried both with Ubuntu 14.04
 and Xubuntu 14.10 - both had the same result).

 Can anyone shed any light as to what’s going on?



Try running gparted from the Ubuntu live USB to see if partitions are being
created although it sounds like not. You might have to manually resize the
partition on disk to install.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

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On 15 November 2014 14:44, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 15/11/14 14:25, Bill B. wrote:


 On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote:

 I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot
 application


 Rowan, pardon my naivety, but have you tried Shutter as the screenshot
 app - it has gone
 it's gone through several system upgrades here [new system, old home
 folder].
 It is, in fact, my app of choice for all the functionality you describe.

  I just installed Shutter, following your suggestion - and rather
 extraordinary this - it is doing exactly the same thing: printing, as
 current screenshot, a screenshot which was actually taken at 0915 this am.
 So whatever the problem is, it affects Shutter equally.


This is a complete guess but it sounds like Screenshot saves its output
somewhere and then copies it to the destination, but that the scratch space
has a temporary file in it that isn't getting overwritten.  Do you have
other user accounts on your system or could you have run screenshot as root
for some reason?

The other possibility that comes to mind is that your system time is wrong
for some reason and that screenshot is creating a file with an out of date
timestamp and that's confusing it. I'll have a quick look through the
source code and see if there are any clues.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help with perl

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On 8 November 2014 23:28, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
wrote:

 I posted about choosing a new laptop recently and have settled on a
 machine, set it up and I'm just getting settled in. I use a perl script for
 work and have discovered it doesn't work any more. It is asking for the
 Text/CSV.pm module which I have installed. However it still produces the
 following error when run:

 Can't locate Text/CSV.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Text::CSV
 module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.1
 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20
 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20
 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at kt74 parse line 4.

 I have located the file in question and copied it to every one of these
 locations however I've had no luck. Is there anyone out there who can point
 me in the direction of a solution? It's driving me mad now!


It's likely to be a component of Text::CSV that's missing. Best practise is
to install perl modules either with apt or with cpan, (seems to be
libtext-csv-perl for apt) so you get all the dependencies.

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[Bug 1384636] [NEW] Spurious characters on some keys

[Simon Greenwood]

Public bug reported:

Xubuntu 14.04.1 on ASUS S400C laptop, since updates at the end of
September I have been getting problems with some keys using En-GB with
extended WinKeys. Specifically 'p', which sends something like 'p~~' and
in Chrome opens either the print dialog or the debug console, and 'Esc'
which started sending '0sen' particularly in vi. Removing ibus seems to
have resolved the problem but if it's going to be the default keyboard
manager there's something odd there.

** Affects: ibus (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

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[Bug 1384636] Re: Spurious characters on some keys

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** Description changed:

  Xubuntu 14.04.1 on ASUS S400C laptop, since updates at the end of
  September I have been getting problems with some keys using En-GB with
- extended WinKeys. Specifically 'p', which sends something like 'p~~' and
- in Chrome opens either the print dialog or the debug console, and 'Esc'
- which started sending '0sen' particularly in vi. Removing ibus seems to
- have resolved the problem but if it's going to be the default keyboard
- manager there's something odd there.
+ extended WinKeys. Specifically 'p', which sends something like '~q~-'
+ and in Chrome opens either the print dialog or the debug console, and
+ 'Esc' which started sending '0scn' particularly in vi. Removing ibus
+ seems to have resolved the problem but if it's going to be the default
+ keyboard manager there's something odd there.

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[Bug 1384636] Re: Spurious characters on some keys

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This is odd as it seems only to be 'p' and Esc that are affected.  It
has started happening again after using Skype but has not recovered
after a reboot, so it may not be ibus after all. Onboard has crashed
after starting in the desktop but works in LightDM. I will investigate
more.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files and folders between two 14.04 machines

[Simon Greenwood]

On 17 October 2014 14:23, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 17 October 2014 15:19, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
  That's a fair question, but to be honest I don't really use anything else
  but ssh/sftp - anywhere.
 
  If I need to move a *massive* amount of data then I'd probably use nc but
  those occasions are rare.
 
  If the original enquirer wanted to they could also use sshfs [1] and
 make it
  more permanent too.

 I must say, it seems a bit sledgehammer/nut to me.

 I mainly use Samba 'cos it Just Works™ and my home server (back in
 London) was running Windows Server 2008 (mainly as a learning
 exercise, but also as it was built out of weird bits of old hardware
 -- e.g. a Dell PATA/100 hardware RAID controller -- that was just
 easier to get working with Windows).



Not long ago, sshfs was being touted as the standard remote mount mechanism
for *buntu although I suppose any FUSE mountable filesystem could. I
personally tend to use it for any ad hoc connection but fall back to NFS
for (semi-)permanent connections across local network. By default you have
SSH or FTP from nautlius or nemo and they're simpler than CIFS. If you use
key based authentication sshfs it's incredibly simple.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

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On 13 October 2014 18:43, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 13 October 2014 13:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote:
 
  How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x?
  I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never
  goes much over 3 hours...which is a pita

 I can get 3 hours repeatably, but this is not light-use. There's
 normally a bit of software compilation, 3G device tethering, and
 probably phone charging, with base consumption about 16W according to
 powertop.

 I've found with mine that fancontrol can make a huge difference. The
 main fan sucks up about 8W on its lowest setting according to powertop
 (and the secondary some more), so setting fancontrol to activate a
 little higher than normal (60C or so rather than 45C) saves huge
 amounts of power; during normal use mine won't go much higher than 55C
 anyway.


I have a three year old Thinkpad Edge 11 and with Xubuntu and an SSD it
will manage 3-4 hours, dropping to 2.5 on a 3G data dongle. Lenovo machines
of that generation are quite well known for poor battery life and there are
third party long life battery packs to address the problem. It's worth
doing a little investigation into improving it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question re cloning and partitioning

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On 8 October 2014 13:35, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote:

 Hi gurus,

 I currently triple-boot my Lenovo U410 with Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 8.1
 (which came pre-installed) and Windows 10 tech preview.
 There is an SSD used for Intel Fastboot (AFAIK) and the three OSs are all
 installed on the main 500GB HDD.

 My question is this - if I decide to wipe out all the Windows installs and
 only keep Ubuntu, can I move the / partition onto the SSD without
 re-installing?
 Would it just be easier to re-install on the SSD keeping my /Home on the
 500GB HDD, and where should I put the Swap area? (The SSD is 24GB)

 Thanks!


Short answer seems to be yes from here:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Dual-booting-Ubuntu-13-04-with-Windows-8-on-a-U410/td-p/1116115

I did wonder if the SSD was visible and bootable from the BIOS and it does
seem to be if you switch off this Intel Smart Response Technology, which I
would guess has a proprietary Windows kernel driver.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

[Simon Greenwood]

7dayshop.com have some refurbished Acer Aspire One notebooks at £179.99
which might fit the bill. They're nice little machines - I have a similarly
specced Lenovo Edge for mobile use, and they happily run Xubuntu. I would
find a cheap 64GB or 128GB SSD to improve battery life if you were going to
be out for any length of time.

s/

On 4 October 2014 15:25, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 Hi there .   I just got back after some time away using my netbook.
 It is a Samsung N150 currently running Lubuntu 14.04 as it had become far
 too slow on recent Ubuntu releases.  I want to upgrade to something faster
 that can run Ubuntu 14.10 at a fair speed.  The thing is, I don't want to
 go much larger in physical size.  10 or so is ideal for me. I tried an
 Android tablet, but really prefer the netbook.  I could get by with a
 tablet running Ubuntu if there were such a thing, but I can't understand
 why netbooks are now in a minority.  I could possibly go for a low-end
 Windows netbook if I knew for certain that it was fully compatible with
 Ubuntu.  Obviously I prefer not to pay for an OS that I'm going to wipe!

 Any thoughts or suggestions?  I don't do gaming - I just want something
 that will do e-mails, internet and documents.  I use cloud sync for
 documents and I keep Thunderbird and Firefox in sync with my desktop.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

[Simon Greenwood]

PCSpecialist machines are essentially the same ones that System 76 use so
they should be fine, and if not the System 76 drivers should help.

s/

On 4 October 2014 17:01, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 On 04/10/14 16:24, Mark Fraser wrote:

 There's the 11.6 Mirage II from PC Specialist which is £237 if you
 remove Windows 8. http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/mirageII/


 That sounds interesting.  Thanks.  I've bought two desktops from
 pcspecialist and have been delighted.  My only gripe is that they
 absolutely refuse to talk Linux as part of company policy so you are on
 your own if there are OS problems or incompatibilities.  When I spoke on
 the phone a few years ago, they told me off the record that every batch of
 laptops that comes in has a variation in the electronics in some small way
 that 'might' affect Linux drivers.  I imagine things have stabilised since
 then but it does make me slightly wary.  Am I being over cautious?

 The size would be ideal - it isn't much bigger than my Sammy, but the spec
 is even better than my current desktop.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

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On 16 September 2014 21:08, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not ubuntu related but I'm hoping someone may have the answer I need.
 Today I discovered my webspace has been hacked and several sites now
 contain additional code at the start of every single PHP file. Looking at
 my backups I can see it  has been there for a while so restoring from a
 very old backup could cause me issues.

 Is there some way I could do a recursive find and delete on that code? It
 is a very long single line including slashes, hashes, exclaimation marks
 etc so using sed would be difficult as the examples I have seen show /thing
 to change/thing to change to/.

 Any ideas very welcome.


find . -name *.php -exec grep -e (string) {} \;

from your document root will find the string A guess would be that the
added code is actually base64 so there will be an eval() or base64() at the
start of it. You should also be able to use just a fragment of the string.

Look at what egrep or grep -e can do to return the actual injected code and
you could then pass that to sed using xargs and delete it, but the simple
truth is that it's going to be a bind. You also have to identify where the
injection was and get rid of it or it will just happen again.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

[Simon Greenwood]

On 16 September 2014 23:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:



 Quoting from my 1979 Unix manual Brian W Kernigan (who is the K in awk)
 says 'there is nothing sacred about slashes' so you can do s?http://
 ?https://?  In other words 'any character can be used to delimit the
 pieces of the s command'  It can save a lot of back slash escaping.

 Tony

  Thank you to everyone for their help. Part of the issue is that the
 offending text is massive and contains pretty much anything I could use as
 a delimiter. However I found a gui tool to do the job and the clean files
 are uploading now.

 The only remaining question is how did it get there to begin with? It was
 present on the 4th September but not in mid August.


There are any number of ways it could have happened but broadly speaking it
will be some detectable exploit by which something could be put on the
server that could change your scripts. If you're using something common
like Wordpress or Joomla there are frequent exploits that are generally
detected and fixed fairly quickly but mean that you must keep on top of
updates of core applications and plugins, but equally common are scanning
methods that detect weak mail forms, upload scripts (often common free ones
for example) and similar things and exploit them.

A quick detection method would be to find any files added since mid August,
particularly in locations where you wouldn't expect them to be.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard error after upgrade to 4/2014

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On 9 September 2014 15:29, Michael h...@ukcentre.com wrote:

 I can not find a way of making the change from American keyboard layout to
 UK permanent.
 The @ and  symbols
 Reverts to American after shutdown, a fix holds for a session only.
 Any suggestions, please ?
 Thanks, Michael


Have you applied all updates? A fix was released for this pretty quickly
after everyone reported it. Setting the default keyboard in ibus should
stay across reboots though.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba

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There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org), which
is available in floppy and CD images.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba

[Simon Greenwood]

On 6 September 2014 20:56, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 6 September 2014 19:54, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
  There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org),
 which
  is available in floppy and CD images.

 In case anyone else thinks the site is down, the correct address
 appears to, unhelpfully, be http://www.freedos.org/

 Regards,
 Matthew


Do you know, I think I've done that before, I rarely put www in front of a
hostname anymore and of course it's still technically incorrect according
to RFC 3986  but you just assume it works, but of course not if the bare
domain doesn't have an A record.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Need advice (Devs?) Urgent - HP printer duplex not fully op with Libre Office

[Simon Greenwood]

LibreOffice has its own print drivers so the problem will almost certainly
be there so have a good look at the printer configuration within
LibreOffice. You could also try community support on the LibreOffice
website to see if there are any workarounds or if anyone is prepared to
pick up the driver for a fix. They also seem to have a support Twitter
account @AskLibreOffice.

s/


On 3 September 2014 23:23, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:

 Please point me in a useful direction here
 New HP printer does not print Duplex from Libre Office, as it should,
 or should I say, Libre Office does not work duplex. The printer works
 ok duplex on test page, and with Thunderbird emails for example. It
 seems to be Libre Office which screws the print config up.

 Using Ubuntu 12.04 updated.
 Details:
 https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/252277 ( comment #18 pp
  candtalan)

 As can be seen from my comment #18 an organisation has asked me to
 recommend a new printer for them. ASAP. Its nice to be famous...
 They certainly should be using Libre Office, and hopefully, Ubuntu
 also (?)

 Am I to recommend my favourite printer manufacturer HP and favourite
 App Libre Office, *knowing* that their essential need for duplex
 printing has a bug and will *not* work??

 HELP!

 What is best for me to do? Anyone have HP imaging contacts and or
 Libre Office? Or am I wrong in thinking that Ubuntu itself is ok?

 I cannot fix this, I need to get a dev to take interest in it and put
 in the (probable) missing colon into the code!!!

 Comments, help, much appreciated

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

[Simon Greenwood]

This command will remove all but your running kernel from the command line:

sudo apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'$(uname
-r | sed s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/)'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^
]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d')

Source is here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/how-do-i-remove-or-hide-old-kernel-versions-to-clean-up-the-boot-menu
and it's what I use to make space when /boot is getting on for full.


On 15 August 2014 11:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 On 15/08/14 11:02, Alan Pope wrote:

 On 15 August 2014 10:59, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 If I want to do it using apt-get, I'm going to have to use the command
 for every one which will take a while.  Is there a tool
 for automating this just a bit?

 Does this command offer to remove some?
 sudo apt-get autoremove

  No.  All it offers to do is to remove one package no longer required.
 Nothing to do with the kernel is shown.  Ah well ... When I've got time on
 my hands I'll go through them.  Thanks anyway.

 Regards,Barry.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers

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On 30 July 2014 10:22, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hi

 I'd like to pick people's brains, if I may, on connecting to remote
 servers.

 My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder
 so that its contents can be used as if it were local data. SSHFS does this,
 but it is command line only.

 Gigolo, Nautilus and Nemo make it very easy to connect to a server but, as
 far as I can see, only using an SFTP connection. This means you can copy
 files backwards and forwards, but not use remote data as if it were local.

 I am very happy using SSHFS but others in my family are not safe to be let
 loose on the command line. I could write a script and place an icon on the
 desktop to run it but, before I do, is anybody aware of a GUI front end to
 SSHFS, or any tricks which might let me achieve my goals with Gigolo or
 Nautilus/Nemo?


SSHFS is just a filesystem and you should be able to open any file mounted
over it on any device that supports it. The only issue you will have is
persistence of your network connection. Essentially you use a URL like
sshfs://server.name/path/to/file as a link and providing the connection is
there it can be opened in the application that you define for it in the
desktop icon.

NFS is an alternative but it's actually less secure than sshfs now as it
doesn't have native encryption, although it's better supported outside of
the Linux desktop.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 July 2014 17:28, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:


 The last entries from the error log are:

 [Wed Jul 02 22:20:53.066457 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 19928]
 AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
 [Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519873 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 20002]
 AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4 configured -- resuming
 normal operations
 [Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519996 2014] [core:notice] [pid 20002] AH00094:
 Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'


 These lines are repeated several times.


So no sign of any actual errors. How about  /var/log/apache2/access.log?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

[Simon Greenwood]

On 2 July 2014 22:24, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:


 I have installed Drupal 7 into Ubuntu 14.04, following instructions from
 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal

 I got as far as the bit that says Complete the Drupal Installation through
 a Browser
 and clicked on the links for install.php but in Firefox all I get is 404
 not found.

 I tried just entering /var/www/drupal/install.php and then Firefox found
 the file but a dialog box popped up asking me what to do with the file,
 rather than allowing me to continue with the drupal installation. It
 suggested opening it with gedit.

 I am not sure if I did it all correctly in installing or setting up
 localhost properly, as the instructions were not entirely clear nor
 complete on that page.

 So how do I get this to work so I can have a working Drupal 7
 installation?


Is apache running and do you get a page when you go to http://localhost in
Firefox?

If so, then try http://localhost/drupal/install.php. If that doesn't work
then something isn't working with your LAMP setup.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

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On 2 July 2014 23:09, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:

 I get 404 error for http://localhost/drupal/install.php so must be
 something wrong with LAMP, although I have no idea what.



It sounds like it's serving but that the document root is wrong or
something isn't running correctly. Run 'tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log'
in a terminal to see what is unhappy.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freezing apps .... was in connection with Thunderbird

[Simon Greenwood]

On 6 June 2014 15:22, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:

 Hi there .  There were some recent posts about Thunderbird freezing.
  This morning, I had a similar experience with Gparted.  I wanted to shrink
 the partition on a 32 GiB SD card and make an EXT3 partition in the
 unallocated space.  Android can use this for extra storage.  First using
 Trusty - it froze and greyed out.  The SD was still flashing, but after
 several minutes, it stopped flashing and Gparted crashed.  Exactly the same
 thing happened on Utopic.

 My wife has Saucy on her PC and Gparted did the job just fine on that one.
  This seems to be a far wider problem than Thunderbird. At the moment, as
 of yesterday's update, Utopic is barely useable. I think there's some
 conflict in Compiz.  Maybe that will go away in the next few updates, but
 in view of this freezing problem, I wonder if there is an underlying fault
 in Unity/Compiz?  Any thoughts?



I've had similar problems with SD cards on Xubuntu particularly when trying
to format them, although that had improved on 13.10, which would suggest
something wrong with removable media support in the underlying system, or
maybe a physical problem with SD card slots or indeed the cards themselves,
however the point is that it's not limited to Ubuntu and I would be
inclined to say that it's not the same problem, or if it is, it's the front
end showing an issue from the back end.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

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On 2 June 2014 15:08, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 See

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27660366

 It seems that the Ubuntu phone will be too late into the market if all the
 manufacturers start bring out their own OS.


Few have the resources or will to create their own OS, or even bring an
existing one to market as Samsung have done so Ubuntu's USP is still that
it's 'free'.

I'm starting to hope that there is a Ubuntu phone (or a good Firefox phone)
available when I need a new one, not least as yesterday my Nexus 4 told me
that I'd walked for 11 hours last month compared to 17 hours the month
before - interesting and it's clearly something I've turned on but also
data that Google is collecting.

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[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Ubuntu phone

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On 2 June 2014 16:27, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Tony Pursell tony.purs...@gmail.com
 Date: 2 Jun 2014 16:25
 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone
 To: Ubuntu UK ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
 Cc:


 On 2 Jun 2014 15:27, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 
 
  On 2 June 2014 15:08, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
 
  See
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27660366
 
  It seems that the Ubuntu phone will be too late into the market if all
 the manufacturers start bring out their own OS.
 
 
  Few have the resources or will to create their own OS, or even bring an
 existing one to market as Samsung have done so Ubuntu's USP is still that
 it's 'free'.
 

 It does say that Tizen is open source.

Not quite - it's a Linux based OS but a lot of the native Samsung apps are
released under the Flora licence, which isn't compatible with the GPL,
among others, so as with Android there is an open source version but it's
not feature complete as on most phones, where in theory Ubuntu and Firefox
OS should be.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing

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On 1 June 2014 20:50, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was lucky enough to be given a PC today, also a P4 but with 2Gb RAM.
 It's running Lubuntu like a dream. I'll tinker with the old on in my own
 time. However I now find their printer isn't supported on Linux at all! A
 Canon Pixma iP1200. That is abysmal to be honest. I thought those days were
 long since gone. I'm really not sure what to do for them now.




The printer appears to be supported by gutenprint:
https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Canon/Canon-PIXMA-iP1200

These drivers can be frustrating to set up and there's no guarantee unless
someone else has done it but there's also no reason to assume that it
shouldn't.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing from Android device

[Simon Greenwood]

On 25 May 2014 16:37, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 I have a Android smart phone.  Does anyone know if I can print from it to
 a printer attached to an Ubuntu PC.  The Ubuntu version is 14.04.

 The Android version is 4.4.2 and the HP Print Service Plugin is enabled.

 If you have got this working, any tips as to the way to set things up
 would be appreciated,


If you have a recent HP printer you need to configure that for the cloud
service too.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Adobe digital editions

[Simon Greenwood]

On 17 May 2014 23:38, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.es wrote:

 Hi all,

 After reading this (0) I gave installing adobe digital editions a try with
 wine. This would enable reading ebooks purchased in waterstones with the
 likes of sony e-reader.

 The adobe installer claims it needs .net (3.5 i believe) but as I try to
 install it the instalation fails.

 A) has anybody managed to install it? If so, any pointers would be great.
 B) is there another way around it? Calibre will not help because of DRM.

 My view would be not to buy DRM e-books and have recommended that but the
 person I am doing support for still wants it anyway. And it would mean not
 needing the win xp instalation.

 (0)
 http://askubuntu.com/questions/92444/how-to-install-adobe-digital-editions


One suggestion is to use wine-mono rather than .Net but it might also
depend on finding a version that works if there have been changes recently.
It wouldn't surprise me if Adobe constantly hack around with DRM to prevent
people trying to read their books for free rather than working on usability
for example.

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[Bug 1249420] Re: Keyboard layout set in the installation is not there in the installed version

[Simon Greenwood]

Upgraded my Acer S400C to Xubuntu 14.04 and all keyboard languages were
removed except US English (laptop keyboard is UK English). Manually
adding UK English in Keyboard Settings resolved the issue.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] First impressions on Trusty

[Simon Greenwood]

I upgraded my Acer S400C laptop to Xubuntu 14.04 on Sunday and it's
generally been good in terms of performance. There is a bug with iBus which
relates to language settings and left me with a US English keyboard map
after reboot and which was fixed by selecting UK English in keyboard
settings. Also suspend seems not to work properly again and my machine
won't recover from it so I may have to investigate further and report that.


On 22 April 2014 23:40, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:




 On 22 April 2014 23:08, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:




 On 22 April 2014 21:40, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:

 
  I upgraded from 13.10. 14.04 is as bad as 13.10, that is it is very

 slow
  starting up.  Especially, after logging in it spends time before you
 get the
  screen back.  Very reminiscent of the way Windows works. This started
 with
  13.10 and I was looking for an improvement in 14.04.  Very
 disappointed.
 
  Also I cannot change screen brightness in 14.04 so battery life is
 poor.


 Interesting. It's very fast on my machine (faster than on 13.04) and the
 brightness works absolutely fine. So I suspect it may be a hardware
 specific issue and would be worth filing as a bug.


 Yes, I did file a bug for the screen brightness control issue [Bug
 1311297]

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

[Simon Greenwood]

If you're just running in a local directory and it's chmodded 755, you have
to execute it with slashdot: ./seaward

s/


On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 23/04/14 10:36, Alan Pope wrote:

 On 23 April 2014 10:31, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 23/04/14 10:27, Alan Lord wrote:

 So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have
 information about how to package it for submission but I still need a
 way to run the program from the command line without calling perl.


 If your script is executable and has the right shebang at the start
 you
 will not need to call perl.


 Al




  The script is called seaward.pl, I want it to be run by simply typing
 seaward. How do I achieve this?

  Make sure it's got the executable bit set, rename it seaward and make
 sure the first line is:-

 #!/usr/bin/env perl

 Put the file in your path and you're done.

 Cheers,
 Al.

  I have tried renaming the file but still get a 'Command not found'
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

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On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread My thoughts
 confirmed, and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in stores it's temp
 files.

 I've looked in /tmp and can see nothing that looks like a .flv video (or
 part of) and I can see nothing in /home/pete/.mozilla or /home/pete/.adobe

 Does anyone know where it downloads it's cache to?

 Or is there a CLI way of following the data (the tail command looks
 promising but I don't know what to tail!)


I seem to recall that swf files are cached in their browser config
directory but also that they're compiled to bytecode so you might not be
able to identify them.

The best command tool to start with would be lsof, which should show you
open files. I have a feeling that you might find that a plugin library is
causing the problem but that it runs inside the browser so isn't visible to
the OS.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 18 April 2014 11:20, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote:




 On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com
 mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread My
 thoughts confirmed, and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in
 stores it's temp files.

 I've looked in /tmp and can see nothing that looks like a .flv video
 (or part of) and I can see nothing in /home/pete/.mozilla or
 /home/pete/.adobe

 Does anyone know where it downloads it's cache to?

 Or is there a CLI way of following the data (the tail command looks
 promising but I don't know what to tail!)


 I seem to recall that swf files are cached in their browser config
 directory but also that they're compiled to bytecode so you might not be
 able to identify them.

 The best command tool to start with would be lsof, which should show you
 open files. I have a feeling that you might find that a plugin library
 is causing the problem but that it runs inside the browser so isn't
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  Hi,

 lsof gives unknown command ls -of the same!


Odd, it's a standard Linux command. How about /usr/bin/lsof?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

[Simon Greenwood]

Seems to be
http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/now

Hmm, maybe it's time to build my own owncloud...




On 2 April 2014 14:07, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:

 I'd recommend any users who use Ubuntu One file services read this
 blog post from our CEO, Jane Silber:-


 http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/01/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

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On 2 April 2014 15:26, YaManicKill mailingl...@10people.co.uk wrote:

 Spideroak allows you to sync any file of folder anywhere on your computer.
 It is also encrypted with your password. Very nice.

 I'd recommend that, the rest of them just sync a folder, which is a bit
 annoying.



Spideroak is about the best but it's not as consistent across machines as
Ubuntu One. I've managed to confuse it considerably where Ubuntu One has
hiccups but does seem to be consistent.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

[Simon Greenwood]

Having said that, I found Bitcasa just before Google Drive announced their
$10 for a terabyte deal and use that as my offsite backup. No sync system
but a supported FUSE based filesystem (in beta). If anyone fancies trying
them out (and giving me a bit of extra space) they can do so by clicking
here: http://l.bitcasa.com/n6j02kWQ

s/


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 On 2 April 2014 15:26, YaManicKill mailingl...@10people.co.uk wrote:

 Spideroak allows you to sync any file of folder anywhere on your
 computer. It is also encrypted with your password. Very nice.

 I'd recommend that, the rest of them just sync a folder, which is a bit
 annoying.



 Spideroak is about the best but it's not as consistent across machines as
 Ubuntu One. I've managed to confuse it considerably where Ubuntu One has
 hiccups but does seem to be consistent.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

[Simon Greenwood]

On 12 March 2014 19:42, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote:

 As an aside [ to continue with the original mail]
 I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a
 Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an
 ageing Dell Dimension].
 The original XP partition is now on the my sda as sda1.
 No surprise, but XP won't boot -failing at a Windows failed to start
 blue screen with this may be because you have installed...].  I am not
 surprised as most of the machine is different [but I am surprised that
 it didn't at least boot to the Oi you! this is not the same machine!
 message followed by option to re-validate].

 The question I have is: would it be possible to run that XP partition on
 a VM?  I normally use VirtuaBox - but have no idea if it can load an XP
 [ntfs] partition rather than loading a cd or live cd tro a VirtualBox
 VM?  ...and would it be a waste of time trying simply to end up with the
 same result as booting it direct from GRUB.

 It would be nice to have a Win load - but don't won't to splash out on a
 new Windows system I don't fully want - I want a Linux [Ubuntu] pooter
 than can, if needed, use the existing WinXP install [which I will be
 internet disabling in April anyway].

 Thanks in anticipation.
 --
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Here's a method from Virtualbox themselves:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows, but from experience it's
not that easy even when virtualising on the same hardware.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 13 February 2014 20:05, Peter Maddison ponchorat1...@hotmail.com wrote:

 What stickers are you after as I am system76's UK outlet for 'Powered by
 Ubuntu' and an alternative to the Window$ logo key.


The free stickers come from System 76 according to the Linux Emporium site
so they could be the 'Powered by Ubuntu' ones. The Canonical set has black
and white Windows key stickers.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

[Simon Greenwood]

On 13 February 2014 22:45, Peter Maddison ponchorat1...@hotmail.com wrote:



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 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?


 You get 4 of each, all you need to do is send me an SAE and I return it
 with stickers enclosed.

 Pete


Doh! Should learn to read :)I

I do believe I wlll.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Data Center Infrastructure Migration Project

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 February 2014 18:13, Ramu Iyer ramu.ti...@gmail.com wrote:

 *Apologies is this question is somewhat off-topic for this mailing list. *

 I am searching for pointers for a playbook that describes a working
 checklist of some (if not all) of the steps in successfully executing a
 Data Center Infrastructure Migration project. This will be useful for a
 Project Manager.

 Insights regarding risks and pitfalls would also be good to learn.

 Should anyone have input that they would like to share, feel free to reply
 directly to me if you think this question is off-topic for this forum.

 Thanks!

 Ramu



It's probably off topic for the general usage of this list, and in all
honesty it's a big subject and no two migrations are exactly the same.
Here's an oldish and pretty high powered one but the principles are
generally the same everywhere:
http://www.datamigrationpro.com/data-migration-articles/2008/12/3/data-migration-project-checklist-a-template-for-more-effecti.html

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