Backporting intel-microcode to 16.04 LTS for errata fix

2017-06-28 Thread Daniel J Blueman
package (3.20170511.1) from Artful which carries the updated microcode to address the errata. What's the consensus here? [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settin

Re: irqbalance superfluous

2015-04-09 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 9 April 2015 at 20:14, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > On Apr 9, 2015 8:09 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" wrote: >> >> Checked with Vivid beta on Intel i5 hardware, and it seems interrupt >> distribution doesn't change when I boot with irqbalance running [1], >

irqbalance superfluous

2015-04-09 Thread Daniel J Blueman
rupts ERR: 11 MIS: 0 -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 24 July 2013 11:08, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:00:40 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> Perhaps we have two issues here: > >> The 20% additional download due to sources [1] would help both issues, >> but perhaps of bigger impact, trusting

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
ly does improve things. > > I agree that I should come up with actual figures before pushing ahead > for this reason. > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-23 Thread Daniel J Blueman
tu/dists/raring-updates/main/source > > [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 105 > [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 50K > [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 62K > > /ubuntu/dists/raring-updates/universe/source > > [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
t from the UK (if you have good network connectivity, ask someone who hasn't got it). No? On 23 July 2013 13:51, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:02:00 AM Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> By large, developers are uninterested in this, but it is important for >>

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
By large, developers are uninterested in this, but it is important for users and where we use Ubuntu. Anyone care to comment on how we can progress this? On 15 July 2013 13:32, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > From earlier feedback, there were no overriding reasons why package > sources sho

country-level archive DNS changes

2013-07-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
What (who?) is the right mechanism to re-point a country-level Ubuntu archive DNS entry, after we have confirmed agreement from the hosting organisation? Many thanks, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-07-14 Thread Daniel J Blueman
have them enabled by default > when it's very easy to turn them on. One of the first things I do on > any new install is disable those that aren't needed. > > Jonathon > > (to the list this time) > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-di

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-21 Thread Daniel J Blueman
I propose we either disable source downloading by default at release time, but I conclude that developers generally don't care about this extra overhead (as we have a good setup). If really we can't see this from a user PoV, I'm happy to start a user discussion and see how users feel...? -- Ubun

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-20 Thread Daniel J Blueman
e the least since we're using the latest releases and have large quota/bandwidth hard and mobile lines; general users don't know about package sources to give the feedback, so I think this is a justifiable case... On 20 May 2013 23:21, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 20 May 2013 16:09, Danie

Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-20 Thread Daniel J Blueman
arent webcaches etc. Anyone get the same feeling that we should have source packages an opt-in? Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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: irqbalance and at daemons by default?

2013-03-26 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 26 March 2013 21:55, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 26/03/2013 18:38, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> When setting up Ubuntu servers and desktops, two daemons I always >> remove are the atd and irqbalance. >> >> irqbalance is perhaps good when you have a server with quad-port

irqbalance and at daemons by default?

2013-03-26 Thread Daniel J Blueman
e and energy otherwise); finally, the demographic who know and use the at daemon must be >1% surely. What justification do we have for continuing forcing these on users by default? (and can we win back some a slightly leaner, securer setup by revisiting this logic?) -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubun

Re: Update manager mandating rebooting

2012-10-31 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 1 November 2012 00:41, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Daniel J Blueman > wrote: > > > > I'd love to hear what other users and developers think about this: > > > > The refreshed update manager (almost) always displays "The computer >

Update manager mandating rebooting

2012-10-31 Thread Daniel J Blueman
OS experience is about the computer being a tool for the user, not imposing such ridiculous constraints. Don't get me wrong; I love developing on Ubuntu and Linux and use it exclusively in my professional and personal life. Now, I'd love to hear why this (IMHO regression) made sense..

Re: DNS caching disabled for 12.10...still

2012-10-17 Thread Daniel J Blueman
all, the way to address this is to share the reasoning of why DNS caching was disabled with the upstream NetworkManager and dnsmasq authors. At least there's a chance to document, ratify and address any issues openly, but alas this did not occur. Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-

Re: DNS caching disabled for 12.10...still

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 8 October 2012 13:24, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> Can you elaborate the specific reasons/mechanisms why without per-user >> caching, dnsmasq is still a security weakness? At least these views >> should be shared up

Re: DNS caching disabled for 12.10...still

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 8 October 2012 21:10, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > [...] >> Good tip on the workaround, Mathieu. Looks like this doesn't work in >> Ubuntu 12.10 pre-release here: >> >> # echo cache-size=400 &

Re: DNS caching disabled for 12.10...still

2012-10-07 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 8 October 2012 03:19, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On 10/07/2012 04:32 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: >> On Oct 7, 2012 12:28 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" > <mailto:dan...@quora.org>> wrote: >>> >>> DNS caching was previously disabled [1] when dnsmasq was i

Re: DNS caching disabled for 12.10...still

2012-10-07 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 8 October 2012 08:27, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: >> On 10/07/2012 04:32 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: >>> On Oct 7, 2012 12:28 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" >> <mailto:dan...@quora.org>> wrote: &g

DNS caching disabled for 12.10...still

2012-10-07 Thread Daniel J Blueman
abling DNS caching is considerable. Thanks! Daniel [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/903854 [2] http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2008q3/002148.html -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.

ext4 recovery/deleted orphans on reboot...

2012-09-24 Thread Daniel J Blueman
phan cleanup on readonly fs EXT4-fs (sda2): ext4_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 394069 EXT4-fs (sda2): 1 orphan inode deleted EXT4-fs (sda2): recovery complete EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing li

kernel headers by default revisit...

2012-07-16 Thread Daniel J Blueman
rrent justification for installing these packages per default? -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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: irqbalance as ubuntu-server dep...

2012-07-11 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 10 July 2012 22:34, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 09:47:33 PM Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> Hi Ubuntu devs, >> >> I've been wanting to raise the question about if ubuntu-standard >> should depend on irqbalance, since the benefits of irqba

irqbalance as ubuntu-server dep...

2012-07-10 Thread Daniel J Blueman
rly a step backward for mobile and even desktop users. The documentation [1] shows the use-cases it was designed for, ie heavy server load. It would be far better as a dependency in an Ubuntu server installation. What do you guys think? Daniel [1] https://irqbalance.org/documentation.html -- Dan

LP958305: unscd crashing and SRU upload...

2012-07-08 Thread Daniel J Blueman
). Please can someone take a look? Many thanks, Daniel [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unscd/+bug/958305 -- Daniel J Blueman -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

maverick radeon 6.13.2 SRU?

2010-09-30 Thread Daniel J Blueman
What is the consensus an SRU for the radeon 6.13.2 Xorg driver in Maverick? http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2010-September/017206.html It is probably too late to ship with the media, so is eligible for a post-release update, right? -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Compress option for btrfs during installation

2010-08-07 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Not only this, but there are (eg) older SSDs which aren't detected correctly, thus we need to specify the 'discard' and 'ssd' mount options to get optimal performance. Clearly a general solution which includes a field (marked 'expert') where one can specify mount op

Re: cups print dialog defaulting to Postscript...

2010-08-05 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 5 August 2010 16:09, Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Daniel J Blueman > wrote: >> On 5 August 2010 10:24, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >>> Hi Onkar, >>> >>> On 5 August 2010 06:05, Onkar Shinde wrote: >>>> On Wed, Au

Re: cups print dialog defaulting to Postscript...

2010-08-05 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 5 August 2010 10:24, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Hi Onkar, > > On 5 August 2010 06:05, Onkar Shinde wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Daniel J Blueman >> wrote: >>> When selecting 'Print to File' in the CUPS printer dialog box, >>>

Re: cups print dialog defaulting to Postscript...

2010-08-05 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Hi Onkar, On 5 August 2010 06:05, Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Daniel J Blueman > wrote: >> When selecting 'Print to File' in the CUPS printer dialog box, >> Postscript is selected per default. >> >> Many users may not realis

[rfc] nscd not caching host lookups...

2010-08-04 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Redhat EL and Novell SLES) have it enabled. Why should we continue to penalise Ubuntu any longer? Comments/feedback welcome. [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4428 -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

cups print dialog defaulting to Postscript...

2010-08-04 Thread Daniel J Blueman
ult - what reasons are against changing to this? Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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: To what extent RHEL Deployment Guide can be used for ubuntu?

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
gies for deploying services, and you can find the equivalent packages often with 'apt-cache search ' or equiv in Synaptic. -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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

bug reporting and file descriptors...

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel J Blueman
e I overlooked something? --- [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/607718 -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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: maverick package indexing broken...

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 10 July 2010 13:09, Michael Bienia wrote: > On 2010-07-10 08:15:22 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> When looking at the maverick package lists at >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ , we get an error, also searching >> for packages in the maverick repos returns nothin

Re: maverick package indexing broken...

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On 10 July 2010 08:25, Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > Hello, > > Il giorno sab, 10/07/2010 alle 08.15 +0100, Daniel J Blueman ha scritto: >> When looking at the maverick package lists at >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ , we get an error, also searching >> for pac

maverick package indexing broken...

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel J Blueman
When looking at the maverick package lists at http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ , we get an error, also searching for packages in the maverick repos returns nothing, and has done for a while now. Is anyone with write access able to take a look? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman

Maverick graphics driver updates?

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel J Blueman
possible, to maximise exposure? Would it help if I opened a launchpad request, due to the debian import freeze? TIA, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

[maverick] mercurial broken for amd64...

2010-07-04 Thread Daniel J Blueman
request sponsorship? -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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: Lucid server flavour RFC

2010-01-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
t takes a finite amount of time to fully restore a CPU which therefore has an impact on latency. Its possible that the CPU and I/O schedulers could also have an impact on latency, but both are also run time settable. I'm quite interested in your suggestions for improving latency sensitive wor

'crash' upload needed for 2.6.30/31 support...

2009-09-21 Thread Daniel J Blueman
problem report. Thanks, Daniel --- [1] http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash.changelog.html --- [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/crash -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubu

[karmic] valgrind 3.5.0 upload request...

2009-09-17 Thread Daniel J Blueman
As valgrind is an important developer tool and a low-risk upload, I'd like to request the upload to karmic, if possible, from: http://packages.debian.org/sid/valgrind Many thanks, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com M

oprofile upload...

2009-09-14 Thread Daniel J Blueman
rg/sid/oprofile It would be great if someone could enqueue it for upload... Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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: [rfc] improving 32bit user performance/experience...

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:00 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel J Blueman > wrote: >> I was trying to raise a more general point about the minimum spec >> across the board, including the embedded and old-server hardware. >> >&

Re: [rfc] improving 32bit user performance/experience...

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:21 AM, John Moser wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Daniel J Blueman > wrote: [snip] > > Even if we split up Ubuntu in i486 and i686, i686 gets its most major > gains from the CMOV instruction family-- a conditional MOV instruction > that ac

[rfc] improving 32bit user performance/experience...

2009-05-18 Thread Daniel J Blueman
tweak end-user performance/experience a bit, am I missing something, or should we just not care? (does any of this apply to x86-64, eg -mtune=core2 or k8?) --- [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_osx_64bit&num=8 -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mail

karmic: changing system logger...

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel J Blueman
RES SHR COMMAND 6464 2916 252 klogd 12376 488 320 syslogd 19624 804 552 syslog-ng 118m 1472 1040 rsyslogd -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-

karmic upload request: syslinux-3.80...

2009-05-10 Thread Daniel J Blueman
At present, karmic has syslinux-3.63, however 3.80 is available in debian sid: http://packages.debian.org/sid/syslinux I'd like to request someone queues the upload for before the alpha-1 cut, if possible. Many thanks! Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list U

FFe request: [fixed] nis recommends nscd...

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel J Blueman
l and packaging-only change, I hope there is chance to get it into the Jaunty beta; I've added FFe justification. Let me know if anything else is missing. Many thanks! Daniel --- [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nis/+bug/345137 -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss ma

upload request: exiv2-0.18-1...

2009-02-18 Thread Daniel J Blueman
I'd like to request the upload of the updated exiv2 0.18 package to jaunty, with it's bug fixes over the 0.17 version. It has been in debian experimental for two months: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exiv2/ Many thanks! Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-dev

Re: hwclock delaying boot...

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:16:48PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 06:54 -0700, LaMont Jones wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:18:09AM +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: >> > > Boo

Re: [rfc] boot-time async readahead...

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel J Blueman
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Daniel J Blueman [2009-02-12 0:57 +]: >> By modifying the boot-time readahead to be at lower I/O and processor >> priority than the boot scripts and asynchronous, I see a 20% reduction >> in overall boot time (from

[rfc] boot-time async readahead...

2009-02-11 Thread Daniel J Blueman
t this reviewed and uploaded. Happy booting! Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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

updated package from upstream questions...

2009-01-29 Thread Daniel J Blueman
any feedback on these questions! Daniel --- [1] http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/dcraw.c -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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

hwclock delaying boot...

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel J Blueman
owever, is there a good reason why they haven't been/can't be combined into a single script and invocation? Thanks, Daniel --- [1] http://quora.org/hive/jaunty-20090128-1.png -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com M

[rfc] Jaunty experience and SSDs...

2009-01-22 Thread Daniel J Blueman
-- [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/b8556b1cd1af57f/b9dd80a08afc0b5e -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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

SRU request, nscd crashing, fixed...

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel J Blueman
ation, building and uploading the updated nscd package, since I don't have Ubuntu developer status? Let me know if I am able to do any of the next actions, as a Ubuntu non-developer. Many thanks! Daniel --- [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/256157 -- Daniel

syslog-ng as default system logger...

2009-01-13 Thread Daniel J Blueman
files; I move to it on all servers and desktops I deploy and enjoy the benefits in a cluster/HPC environment. If the jaunty window is closed, what is the best way to open discussion on this for jaunty+1 (having missed it yet again)? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

jaunty: ufraw-0.15-1 upload request...

2009-01-10 Thread Daniel J Blueman
ove to see it get into Jaunty before the freeze: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/ufraw/ Can someone kindly upload it and gimp-ufraw please? Please CC on any replies and many thanks! Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.

nscd frequent assertion failure...

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel J Blueman
] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/256157 --- [3] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4428 -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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