16.04 problems
Hello I am getting error messages in the Terminal and can't fix it , if I send you a screenshot can you have a look ? -- All the best Bill -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Snap under SELinux
There has been a lot of hostile discussion of snaps on reddit recently. One objection to snap could be removed via technical work: Snap requires AppArmor, doesn't work under SELinux. Is there any plan to make an SELinux version of snapd ? How can I file a request to do so ? Is this mailing list the only way to request it ? Thanks, Bill Dietrich b...@billdietrich.me -- Email domain proudly hosted at https://migadu.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Request: snap updating in Software Updater app
In the Software Updater application, while checking/updating snaps: - the Details button does not work - there is no percent-progress indicator shown Could someone please fix/improve these ? Should I file a feature-request somewhere, or is this mailing list the only channel for that ? Thanks, Bill Dietrich b...@billdietrich.me -- Email domain proudly hosted at https://migadu.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Installing Ubuntu 20.04 desktop GNOME was not a smooth experience
Hello, hope I'm not violating any rules. I want to relate my experience, which leads to some feature requests (which I think go on this mailing list) and some bug reports (which I should file elsewhere). I have been running Mint 19.3, but wanted to change to Ubuntu 20.04. Laptop is a cheapo Dell Inspiron circa 2011, legacy BIOS, hard disk. Did loads of backups, everything I could think of. Still missed a few=2 items, such as global settings in VSCode. I want to install all apps fresh, not copy my old home directory across. Booted FreeDOS and updated BIOS, no problems. Booted Win10 installer and installed Windows 10 to test my bluetooth hardware (which didn't work under Mint). It doesn't work under Win10 either, so the problem must be hardware. And installing Win10 is really nasty, Microsoft tries to get you to create or link to all kinds of cloud accounts. 1. Booted USB stick with Ubuntu 20.04 image on it, no problems. Ran installer. Install choices seem to be "install Ubuntu alongside Windows" or "have Ubuntu use the whole disk, wipe out Windows". I want the latter, simple. I want one partition for everything (no swap partition, no /home partition). 2. Kept getting "want to unmount /dev/sdb [the USB stick I booted from] ?". Neither yes nor no would make it stop asking. 3. No choice or indication, under Advanced or anywhere else, of swap-partition vs swap-file vs no-swap. 4. Under Advanced, choice to use LVM and encrypt whole disk, but no choice to just encrypt each home directory, which is what I think I had in Mint. 5. Tried to install with LVM and encryption, got "An error occurred while confguring encrypted volumes. The configuration has been aborted". 6. Went back and forth several times, tried "advanced partitioning tool", tried install, got "you haven't defined a boot partition". 7. Without using "advanced partitioning tool", got some partitioning to start, then a message "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda5 - device or resource busy. This means you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting". But no quit or restart=2 button. I kept going, bad idea. 8. Soon something (probably partitioner) crashed. Installer said "want=2 to report the problem ?", and then started this standard UbuntuOne bug-reporting web page that required account registration and email and logging in etc. Who's going=2 to have access to that info in the middle of installing ? 9. Tried to shut down the system and it hung after failing to unmount a few things. Powered off. 10. Booted again, and this time the installer is seeing an Ubuntu system already on the hard disk, along with Windows, and giving more choices (4 choices instead of the original 2 choices). 11. Selecting "overwrite that Ubuntu system" worked. Install succeeded. 12. Running the new system from hard disk: "swapon --show" and "inxi -P" both say "swap /dev/dm-2 partition, size 976M, used 0B". There is no /swapfile. "lsblk -f" says /dev/sda6 is type "crypto_LUKS" and two levels inside that there is a "vgubuntu-swap_1" which has fstype "swap". So I guess I have no swap, and full-disk (full extended Linux partition) encryption ? Am I right about these ? So, some feature requests for the installer: A. Although I didn't want this kind of config, I think under "Advanced" there should be an easy button-and-field way to say "separate / and /home partitions, use N GB for / and rest for /home". B. I think under "Advanced" there should be an easy choice of swap-partition vs swap-file vs no-swap. And once you're about to commit=2 to installing, there should be some indicator of what you're going to get for swap: swap-partition or swap-file or no-swap. C. I think crashes during install should have some streamlined crash-reporting mechanism, not involving an UbuntuOne account and logging in etc. D. I think that "error informing the kernel" message should have a big red "restart right now" button next to it. E. IIRC, in Advanced it mostly just said "want LVM" without any explanation of the implications. Maybe I'm remembering wrongly. Would=2 be nice to have a tool-tip or something there. IMO the "Advanced" button section is not as "advanced" as using "advanced partitioning tool", it's more intermediate, so a little more help there would be good. Thanks for any information or feedback. Bill Dietrich -- Email domain proudly hosted at https://migadu.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
indicator-session randomly disappears
After I log on, the button may disappears. This situation happens randomly. Here is a screenshot showing this situation. By the way, I uses Ubuntu 10.04. -- Best regards, Bill Lee <>-- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Is it a bug of kexec?
In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, when executing 'kexec -e', mounted file systems will not be umounted, and the caches/buffers will not sync to devices. So it may cause data lost. According to the man page of kexec, 'kexec -e' will call 'shutdown'. So I test out 'shutdown now', and I found that all processes are killed, but it does not perform umounting or syncing. So I think it is a bug of either kexec or shutdown. -- Best regards, Bill Lee -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: FW: RSS Reader in Lucid
In fact, RSS function is included in Firefox. Best regards, Bill Lee Shane.Nuessler 写道: > > Dear Ubuntu Dev’s, > > I’ve added my own RSS reader to the 10.04 beta and I’m wondering why > there isn’t an obvious way to subscribe to RSS feeds in 10.04. This is > a common method of subscribing to info as you know. I installed yarssr > which conveniently adds a panel plugin and warns me of updates to blog > feeds. As a use case example, I just want to access my RSS > subscriptions from the panel, and I don’t use Evolution for mail or > it’s RSS features if it has any. > > Not even Gwibber seems to be able to subscribe to an RSS feed, and my > friends and colleagues have blogs that I need to stay up to date with. > > By the way, I’ve put an idea to gnome dev’s that gnome-shell be based > on a drag-able layout plugin system. IE, I want to be able to change > where things are placed, and I want to be able to add and remove > “services” to suit my needs. Shouldn’t the overlay be a customizable > space? Maybe I don’t want to see my windows in the overlay. How much > space in the overlay could be freed up for other “activities”. Maybe > social network activities? In which case I would have a window > switcher outside the overlay. Is there only one way people use > computers? In my view there should be a layout manager, and everything > on the overlay should be a plugin with the option of adding and > removing them. I believe this model would also suit any number of > monitors, provided the layout manager knew how to work with them. > > Cheers. > > Shane. > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens
Dmitrijs Ledkovs 写道: > On 2 April 2010 15:17, Felix Miata wrote: > >> On 2010/04/02 14:01 (GMT+0200) Jérôme Bouat composed: >> >>> Maybe only 1 panel which includes the windows bar (like the Microsoft >>> Windows task bar) would be a good trade-off. >>> >> Kubuntu - one bar >> Xubuntu - one bar >> > > Ubuntu - one bar (netbook remix) > Ubuntu - two bar (desktop edition) > > Maybe it is good that the panels hide automatically when a window maximize, just like cairo-dock. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: A bug of Linux in Ubuntu 10.04
Arand Nash 写道: > Bill Lee wrote: >> First of all, as a foreign English speaker, I may not be able to express >> myself complete. If you have difficult understand this mail, I feel >> sorry. >> I ran Ubuntu 10.04 on Virtual Box OSE, and find that the ACPI part of >> Linux Ubuntu 10.04 cannot work with Virtual Box OSE. >> System will hold up when loading Linux kernel. But if I send parameter >> 'acpi=off' to the kernel or disable the ACPI support of the virtual >> machine, the system will work. >> The version of Linux is '2.6.32-16-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 9 >> 16:33:52 UTC 2010'. >> The Virtual Box OSE is running in Ubuntu 9.10 and its version is >> '3.0.8_OSE r53138'. >> Ubuntu 9.10 can work with this version of Virtual Box. So I think this >> problem can be sovled. I wish Lucid LTS will become better. >> >> Best wishes, >> Bill Lee >> >> > > This is a known bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ose/+bug/510571 > I am not quite sure why the patch hasn't gotten much attention yet, > but presumably it's busy times at the moment. > > Thank you for your attention. In my opinion, the patch of universe packages can hardly get the attention of users, because the universe packages never update during the support period of a release of Ubuntu ( at least after Auguest, 2009, when I start using Ubuntu). And many of universe packages release without testing. Some of them even cannot work. Best wishes, Bill Lee -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
A bug of Linux in Ubuntu 10.04
First of all, as a foreign English speaker, I may not be able to express myself complete. If you have difficult understand this mail, I feel sorry. I ran Ubuntu 10.04 on Virtual Box OSE, and find that the ACPI part of Linux Ubuntu 10.04 cannot work with Virtual Box OSE. System will hold up when loading Linux kernel. But if I send parameter 'acpi=off' to the kernel or disable the ACPI support of the virtual machine, the system will work. The version of Linux is '2.6.32-16-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 9 16:33:52 UTC 2010'. The Virtual Box OSE is running in Ubuntu 9.10 and its version is '3.0.8_OSE r53138'. Ubuntu 9.10 can work with this version of Virtual Box. So I think this problem can be sovled. I wish Lucid LTS will become better. Best wishes, Bill Lee -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
usplash and alternate resolutions
Hello, Does anyone know if there is work underway in usplash to support resolutions such as 1024x600 and 1280x800 (without stretching the image), which are proving to be quite common in the netbook space? If not, any hints as to the efforts of adding this support would be appreciated. Thanks, Bill -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
