[Bug 1816045] Re: secureboot-db: release upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 modifies changelog.gz but resets mtime

2020-09-04 Thread Oliver O.
Thanks for explaining. I am using an internally developed, Python-based backup system. It makes backups from Btrfs snapshots and regularly verifies the integrity of the entire restore process. The verification shows discrepancies such as the one above. As most backup systems rely on mtime to detec

[Bug 1891515] [NEW] ucf overwrites diverted configuration file breaking unattended upgrades - upstream fix available

2020-08-13 Thread Oliver O.
Public bug reported: An unattended security upgrade (package dovecot-core) failed, interrupting mailbox service. The cause was ucf replacing a custom configuration file which had been diverted (using dpkg-divert) by a custom configuration package. Excerpt from /var/log/apt/term.log: --- Setting u

[Bug 1816045] [NEW] secureboot-db: release upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 modifies changelog.gz but resets mtime

2019-02-15 Thread Oliver O.
Public bug reported: During a release-upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, the file /usr/share/doc/secureboot-db/changelog.gz is modified, but retains its original mtime. This will interfere with incremental backups, which will fail to pick up the updated file. The file's first line has changed fr

[Bug 1816045] Re: secureboot-db: release upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 modifies changelog.gz but resets mtime

2019-02-15 Thread Oliver O.
Update affected package ** Package changed: man-db (Ubuntu) => secureboot-db (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1816045 Title: secureboot-db: release upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04

[Bug 1679627] Re: White/colored noise borders around windows after resume from standby (Nvidia on Xenial with kernel 4.8)

2017-06-21 Thread Oliver O.
Seems to be fixed in package nvidia-375 version 375.66-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 1679627] Re: White/colored noise borders around windows after resume from standby (Nvidia on Xenial with kernel 4.8)

2017-04-05 Thread Oliver O.
Workaround To remedy the problem without adverse effects (such as logging out), run this command from a terminal window: $ setsid compiz --replace -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/167962

[Bug 1679627] Re: White/colored noise borders around windows after resume from standby (Nvidia on Xenial with kernel 4.8)

2017-04-04 Thread Oliver O.
** Description changed: This happens intermittently on Xenial since upgrading to kernel 4.8: After resuming from standby (S3), white borders with colored dots appear around windows (see screenshot attached). Restarting lightdm (sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service) on a text cons

[Bug 1679627] [NEW] White/colored noise borders around windows after resume from standby (Nvidia on Xenial with kernel 4.8)

2017-04-04 Thread Oliver O.
Public bug reported: This happens intermittently on Xenial since upgrading to kernel 4.8: After resuming from standby (S3), white borders with colored dots appear around windows (see screenshot attached). Restarting lightdm (sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service) on a text console fixes the pro

[Bug 1655842] Re: "Out of memory" errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59

2017-02-11 Thread Oliver O.
Tested Ubuntu 4.4.0-63.84-generic 4.4.44 on a desktop system with a workload which previously led to Chrome processes being OOM-killed. Situation with 4.4.0-62-generic: between 8 and 54 processes OOM-killed per 24-hour period Situation with 4.4.0-63-generic: no OOM-kills during 46 hours of testin

[Bug 1655842] Re: "Out of memory" errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59

2017-02-11 Thread Oliver O.
** Tags removed: verification-needed-xenial ** Tags added: verification-done-xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1655842 Title: "Out of memory" errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59 To

[Bug 1655842] Re: "Out of memory" errors after upgrade to 4.4.0-59

2017-02-09 Thread Oliver O.
Testing... Enabled proposed (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed). Installed kernel packages: # apt-get install -s -t xenial-proposed 'linux-headers-4.4.0.63$' 'linux-headers-4.4.0.63-generic$' 'linux-image-4.4.0.63-generic$' 'linux-image-extra-4.4.0.63-generic$' Rebooted. # cat /pr

[Bug 1584052] Re: btrfs: file write crashes with false ENOSPC during snapshot creation since kernel 4.4 - fix available

2016-06-14 Thread Oliver O.
Verified with the test script of #5. Kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Steps used: 1. Verified that release kernel 4.4.0-24-generic still had the problem. 2. Verified that kernel 4.4.0.25 from -proposed contains the resolution: # apt-get install -s -t xenial-proposed 'linux-headers-4.4.0.

[Bug 1584052] Re: btrfs: file write crashes with false ENOSPC during snapshot creation since kernel 4.4 - fix available

2016-05-23 Thread Oliver O.
Hope the SRU will be accepted quickly. Should be the case, since this issue causes loss of user data as applications will have no reason to retry files writes under out of space conditions. Thanks for the quick and professional cooperation! -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1584052] Re: btrfs: file write crashes with false ENOSPC during snapshot creation since kernel 4.4 - fix available

2016-05-23 Thread Oliver O.
Another 24 error-free hours on the server with the test kernel running the MySQL/Icinga2 combination and creating btrfs snapshots every 5 minutes. I'd like to add that this server, which previously experienced frequent false ENOSPC conditions with the Xenial release kernel, used a fairly plain bt

[Bug 1584052] Re: btrfs: file write crashes with false ENOSPC during snapshot creation since kernel 4.4 - fix available

2016-05-22 Thread Oliver O.
The Xenial test kernel with a pick of 4da2e26 resolves the bug, no negative side effects were encountered. With the Xenial release kernel, there were 18 MySQL server crashes in a 24 hour period due to false ENOSPC indications. With the test kernel, not a single crash occured in a 24 hour period.

[Bug 1584052] Re: btrfs: file write crashes with false ENOSPC during snapshot creation since kernel 4.4 - fix available

2016-05-21 Thread Oliver O.
I have now installed the kernel image on a server which previously experienced MySQL crashes every 1 to 2 hours. The server uses MySQL for an Icinga2 monitoring database (so it's frequently writing) and is configured to create btrfs snapshots every 5 minutes. # cat /proc/version Linux version 4.4.

[Bug 1584052] Re: btrfs: file write crashes with false ENOSPC during snapshot creation since kernel 4.4 - fix available

2016-05-20 Thread Oliver O.
There is no matching report in /var/crash. The bug is already diagnosed and fixed upstream, and may be reproduced with the information provided in https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7967161/ ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notificatio

[Bug 1584052] [NEW] btrfs: file write crashes with false ENOSPC during snapshot creation since kernel 4.4 - fix available

2016-05-20 Thread Oliver O.
Public bug reported: Kernel 4.4 introduced a btrfs bug where a process writing a file while a snapshot creation is underway will receive a false ENOSPC error (No space left on device), even while there is plenty of free space on the file system. On systems where snapshots are created frequently, t

[Bug 1411633] [NEW] man-db's manipulation of index.db mtime timestamp interferes with incremental backups

2015-01-16 Thread Oliver O.
Public bug reported: It appears that since version 2.7.0, man-db manipulates the mtime timestamp of /var/cache/man/de/index.db in a way that the content may change, while the timestamp is reset to its previous value (see attachment). See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/foundations- bugs/2014-Se