RE: Ubuntu Server Guide updates suggested by commenters

2022-02-09 Thread Doug Smythies
-Original Message- From: ubuntu-server On Behalf Of Christian Ehrhardt Sent: February 9, 2022 12:59 AM To: Bryce Harrington Cc: ubuntu-server Subject: Re: Ubuntu Server Guide updates suggested by commenters On 2022.02.09.12:59 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 8:31

RE: Ubuntu Serverguide 20.04 - chat agent

2020-07-24 Thread Doug Smythies
verguide open over the last few days, and it has got to be just the most annoying thing ever. > >> On 2020-04-13 8:14 a.m., Doug Smythies wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Some sort of chat agent has appeared on the > > > new discource Ubuntu serverguide 20.04

RE: Ubuntu Serverguide 20.04 - chat agent

2020-07-22 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2020.04.13 09:38 Joshua Powers wrote: > > This is now removed from the server docs. Well, it seems to have been turned on again. > On 2020-04-13 8:14 a.m., Doug Smythies wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some sort of chat agent has appeared on the > > new discource U

RE: New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

2020-05-07 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2020.05.07 01:58 Robin Winslow wrote: > Sorry this is quite a delayed update, > but the publishing issue for the server > guide was fixed by IS on 29th April, > and has been building daily ever since. Yes, I noticed. Thank you. > You can always find the latest version of the > PDF with the

20.04 release day publication of help.ubuntu.com

2020-04-22 Thread Doug Smythies
The release day publication (the job runs at noon UTC) of help.ubuntu.com will: . change the "lts" and "stable" links as normal for the desktop help and installation guide, but delete them for the serverguide. . redirects for the serverguide html and pdf have been added to .htaccess to send

RE: New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

2020-04-22 Thread Doug Smythies
Addendum: On 2020.04.22 07:13 Doug wrote: >> >> I haven't checked the PDF in the past so I don't know what to estimate. >> > > The note on the intro source page [3] says once per day, > I waited about 30 hours, but didn't see it updated. > My purpose here, was less to do with my edit, but to >

RE: New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

2020-04-22 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2020.04.22 03:50 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:13 AM Christian Ehrhardt wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:31 PM Doug Smythies wrote: >>> On 2020.04.21 00:03 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:58 PM Doug Smythie

RE: New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

2020-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2020.04.21 00:03 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:58 PM Doug Smythies wrote: >> On 2019.11.21 07:08 Doug Smythies wrote: >>> On 2019.11.20 23:00 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: >>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:11 AM Doug Smythies wrote: >>&

RE: New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

2020-04-20 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.11.21 07:08 Doug Smythies wrote: > On 2019.11.20 23:00 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:11 AM Doug Smythies wrote: >>> On 2019.11.19 09:32 Joshua Powers wrote: >>> >>>> The new official home for the Ubuntu Server Guide is

RE: Ubuntu Serverguide 20.04 - chat agent

2020-04-14 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2020.04.13 11:52 Tim McNamara wrote: > This isn't actually a bot. There are real people sitting behind it. Yes, I am aware. > It's part of our desire to be helpful across ubuntu.com to be responsive when > people need help. > I am happy to raise this though. Could you please clarify the

Ubuntu Serverguide 20.04 - chat agent

2020-04-13 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi, Some sort of chat agent has appeared on the new discource Ubuntu serverguide 20.04 web pages. Sometimes someone appears to be present, other times is says "leave a message". My question is why is it there at all? Can it be eliminated? References: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs ... Doug

RE: Server 20.04 verses 16.04: python-gnuplot

2020-01-28 Thread Doug Smythies
Just an F.Y.I follow up: On 2020.01.20 16:34 Doug Smythies wrote: >On 2020.01.20 11:00 Bryce Harrington wrote, >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 08:22:39AM -0800, Doug Smythies wrote: >>> On 2020.01.19 17:03 Bryce Harrington wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 04:24:1

RE: Server 20.04 verses 16.04: python-gnuplot

2020-01-20 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2020.01.20 11:00 Bryce Harrington wrote, > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 08:22:39AM -0800, Doug Smythies wrote: >> On 2020.01.19 17:03 Bryce Harrington wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 04:24:13PM -0800, Doug Smythies wrote: >> I have not followed the issues, but

RE: Server 20.04 verses 16.04: python-gnuplot

2020-01-20 Thread Doug Smythies
800, Doug Smythies wrote: >> I have been unable to get it working on a new 20.04 installation. >> If I attempt to install "python-gnuplot" I get: > > Yes, efforts in focal development are striving to remove python2, so for > 20.04 forward the python3-* packages are th

Server 20.04 verses 16.04: python-gnuplot

2020-01-19 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi All, For several years now, my main test server has been 16.04, as is my main gateway router / firewall / web server. I missed 18.04 because I was not ready to convert to netplan. I attempt to contribute to the kernel power management group. Because it has become a challenge to run the leading

RE: New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

2019-11-21 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.11.20 23:00 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:11 AM Doug Smythies wrote: >> On 2019.11.19 09:32 Joshua Powers wrote: >> >>> The new official home for the Ubuntu Server Guide is now live: >>> >>> https://ubuntu.com/server/docs

RE: New Ubuntu Server Guide Live

2019-11-20 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Josh, Thank you for getting the site up. I'll add the note and link from help.ubuntu.com On 2019.11.19 09:32 Joshua Powers wrote: > The new official home for the Ubuntu Server Guide is now live: > > https://ubuntu.com/server/docs > > On the bottom of each server guide page is a link to the

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: call for content and reviews

2019-11-06 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Josh, Thank you for your reply. On 2019.11.06 07:56 Josh wrote: > On 11/5/19 5:24 PM, Doug Smythies wrote: >> >> There are still things to work out for this >> transition from Docbook to discourse, but I thought it >> best to wait until after 19.10 was done. &

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: call for content and reviews

2019-11-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi all, There are still things to work out for this transition from Docbook to discourse, but I thought it best to wait until after 19.10 was done. O.K. so now let's get on with it. Where will the final compiled HTML document be posted? And would it make sense to simply have it at the same

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide - VCS docs

2019-09-26 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.09.25 10:28 Bryce Harrington wrote: > - Removed the git basic usage directions Sorry to be late to the party. I disagree with the deletion of the git page. On 2019:09:12 12:51 Bryce wrote: > Given the prevalence of git these days, ... > and I think it is safe to assume most readers >

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: How to manage launchpad bug reoprts

2019-09-15 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.09.15 14:30 Doug Smythies wrote: > On 2019.09.15 12:04 Bryce Harrington wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 08:42:40AM -0700, Doug Smythies wrote: ... > O.K. then I suggest, we split out "bionic" from "trunk", and continue > as we have done in the past: &

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: How to manage launchpad bug reoprts

2019-09-15 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Bryce, Thanks for your reply. On 2019.09.15 12:04 Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 08:42:40AM -0700, Doug Smythies wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For the serverguide discourse version what is the plan >> for how launchpad bugs should be dealt with? &

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: call for content and reviews

2019-09-15 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.09.13 12:45 Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 05:44:15PM -0700, Doug Smythies wrote: >> On 2019.09.12 13:26 Joshua Powers wrote: > >> There are a great many dead links, and I don't know how many links >> that should not be links. For example [4]

Ubuntu Server Guide: How to manage launchpad bug reoprts

2019-09-15 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi, For the serverguide discourse version what is the plan for how launchpad bugs should be dealt with? Let's use bug 1839717 as an example case. I chose this bug report because it is so trivial. What I want to do is fix the bug for the DocBook version, but leave it active for the discourse

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: call for content and reviews

2019-09-14 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.09.09 13:26 Joshua Powers wrote: > I want to announce the migration of the Ubuntu Server Guide source to > Discourse [1]. Now that the source migration is complete, during the > upcoming LTS cycle a new site will publish the Discourse topics and > automatically update when changes are

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: call for content and reviews

2019-09-13 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.09.13 13:06 Joshua Powers wrote: > On 9/12/19 5:44 PM, Doug Smythies wrote: >> The related doc team wiki pages will need updating. > > If you can point me at pages, we can help out here as well. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/UbuntuServerG

RE: Ubuntu Server Guide: call for content and reviews

2019-09-12 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.09.12 13:26 Joshua Powers wrote: > Hi, Hi, Thanks for your hard work on this. > I want to announce the migration of the Ubuntu Server Guide source to > Discourse [1]. Now that the source migration is complete, during the > upcoming LTS cycle a new site will publish the Discourse topics

RE: Ubuntu Serverguide - pending point release for 18.04 will be in English only.

2019-06-17 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.06.17 09:18 Peter Matulis wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:33 PM Doug Smythies wrote: > >> It is likely that for the 20.04 LTS release, the Serverguide >> source code will be changed to git based version control and >> some sort of markup language,

RE: Ubuntu Serverguide - pending point release for 18.04 will be in English only.

2019-06-17 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.06.17 12:30 Frank Heimes wrote: > Hi Doug, Hi, > glad to hear about the move to git > - already any more details on the 'markup' language? Last I knew (September), there were two contenders, as proposed by the Canonical Docs team. Excerpt from Josh Powers (Reference, my archives:

Ubuntu Serverguide - pending point release for 18.04 will be in English only.

2019-06-15 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi all, I posted this to the doc team list and translator list, But someone suggested I post it here also: In a few days help.ubuntu.com will be updated with a point release of the 18.04 Serverguide. Only the US-English version will be published. Why? It is likely that for the 20.04 LTS

RE: mlocate - what is it good for?

2019-05-28 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi, While there are lots of e-mails on this thread, I decided to reply to this one. I use locate several times per day on every linux computer I use, and I often manually update the database, including after a new machine startup (VM, for example). I consider it to be one of the most useful

RE: Control Groups

2018-02-22 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2018.02.13 09:02 Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: >> >> What is the status of the cgmanager package? >> >> Yesterday, a bug report was filed against the Ubuntu server guide - Control >&

Control Groups

2018-02-13 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi, What is the status of the cgmanager package? Yesterday, a bug report was filed against the Ubuntu server guide - Control Groups chapter. To investigate I tried to install cgmanager on my bionic server test VM. However, I can not find it. It exists for 16.04, and I have it on my 16.04

RE: Ubuntu Server Development Summary - 26 May 2017

2017-05-30 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2017.05.30 08:42 David Britton wrote: > = Server guide updates = > There seems to be some confusion about what is desired with respect to updates or the desire that they not occur by themselves, as opposed to "automatic updates". It is currently broken, and I do not know how the

RE: Feedback request | Documentation site reorg, switch to Markdown

2017-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Robert, Simon, Both very useful e-mails thanks. Robert: for unknown reasons (it is not in the held queue) your e-mails do not get to the docs e-mail list (or the translators one, I think), so this reply is also to get it there. Note: e-mails from some others are not getting to all copied

RE: Feedback request | Documentation site reorg, switch to Markdown

2017-02-27 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2017.02.22 16:47 Peter Matulis wrote: > I should mention to the uninitiated that a single wayward character will > generate > a bewildering error when a build of HTML is attempted. Considering that you > need > to go through a long file full of the above stuff, I recall my "debugging" >

RE: Feedback request | Documentation site reorg, switch to Markdown

2017-02-19 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Peter, I'm only commenting on the Ubuntu Serverguide herein, As others have covered the desktop help docs and the installation guide quite well. What I have to say was also covered in our off-list pre-discussion. On 2017.02.15 13:58 Peter Matulis wrote: > All this would entail: > > -

RE: Feedback request | Documentation site reorg, switch to Markdown

2017-02-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Robert, Thanks very much for chiming in. On 2017.02.18 15:30 Robert Young wrote: > Hi all, > > As a person interested in contributing for the first time, Do you know which area you are most likely to contribute to? The desktop help or the serverguide or the installation guide or all 3? >

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - TRUSTY

2016-05-16 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2016.01.03 7:58 Peter Matulis wrote: > On 01/03/2014 10:43 AM, Peter Matulis wrote: >> On 01/03/2014 01:08 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: >>> I can help; it would be a good way to understand the new format. >>> Should I do what you did and fetch a chapter somehow, edit it and >>> place it

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - XENIAL

2016-04-18 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2016.04.18 08:57 Peter Matulis wrote: > Please remove chapter 16 (Chat). Peter, If you want that chapter deleted, why don't you do it? > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: > Thanks all for the various updates to the 16.04 Ubuntu ser

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - XENIAL

2016-04-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Thanks all for the various updates to the 16.04 Ubuntu serverguide. I am not sure what to do about the obsolete stuff that hasn't been updated by subject matter experts. ... Doug -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - XENIAL

2016-03-20 Thread Doug Smythies
orking on (Ted last suggested it would be today), and probably wait for it to be merged. Then you take your snapshot. > On 19-Mar-2016, at 6:16 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: > > On 2016.03.18 15:37 Brendan Perrine wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:10:44 +

RE: Server team minutes for 2016-03-15

2016-03-19 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Chirstian, Thanks for trying it. On 2016.03.16 01:07 Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > Regarding the failure at the "select and install software" step > - I used the installer on s390x and amd64 - and it worked for both as of this > morning. > One has to find why it is still failing for your

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - XENIAL

2016-03-19 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2106.03.17 14:11 Serge Hallyn wrote: > I'm working (in the background) on a new lxd section. I'm writing the draft > in the github markdown format. Serge, thanks. I recall your lxc contribution was very good and much appreciated. > I recall there was some discussion on this > before, so

[Bug 1549788] Re: bind9 9.10.3.dfsg.P2-5 crash on exit

2016-03-19 Thread Doug Smythies
Yes, same for me. Setting back to confirmed. bind9-host 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P2-5, not sure why out package numbers differ. ** Changed in: bind9 (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed

RE: Server team minutes for 2016-03-15

2016-03-19 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2016.03.16 08:53 Doug Smythies wrote: > Now, trying again selecting some stuff at the "Select and Install Software" > step, was failing (many days in a row and many scenarios) and now it is not. > (?) > That was on a VM today, but a real physical machine before. I'll

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - XENIAL

2016-03-19 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2016.03.17 16:48 Peter Matulis wrote: > Maybe it is time for radical changes. > We don't get contributions so why are we so concerned about translations? > Translations of what? Well, we have been at least been fixing bug reports, and led by Ted Cox, there was an effort to catch up on bug

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - XENIAL

2016-03-18 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2016.03.18 15:37 Brendan Perrine wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:10:44 + Serge Hallyn wrote: >> in the github markdown format. I recall there was some discussion on this > I read through the section on remote access Did you mean Chapter 6 - Remote Administration ? > and and file

RE: Server team minutes for 2016-03-15

2016-03-16 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2016.03.15 11:09 Diogo Matsubara wrote: > here are the meeting minutes from today's IRC meeting: I was unable to attend. Is anybody aware that currently, and for some time now, installation of the daily server 64 bit ISO doesn't work? It either fails at the "select and install" software

[Bug 1551351] Re: dhclient does not renew leases

2016-03-08 Thread Doug Smythies
Correction 1: Stefan not Stephan, sorry. Correction 2: Things broke down about another 1/2 day after the lease times changes to 1 hour. The client didn't seem to release this and resorted to broadcast type discover stuff. Then it was getting leases for 5 minutes, and the cycle continued until I

[Bug 1551351] Re: dhclient does not renew leases

2016-03-08 Thread Doug Smythies
>From Stephan comment 14: "Hm, of course, if one starts dhclient in debug mode (foreground) by adding a "-d", everything does work." Yes, that does seem to work, but only for about another day, at least in my case. Thereafter, my ISP stopped returning my domain name, host name and some other

[Bug 1549788] Re: bind9 9.10.3.dfsg.P2-4 crash on exit

2016-03-04 Thread Doug Smythies
1:9.10.3.dfsg.P2-5 has the same issue, but the apparmor issue is fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bind9 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1549788 Title: bind9 9.10.3.dfsg.P2-4 crash on exit To manage

[Bug 1549788] Re: bind9 9.10.3.dfsg.P2-4 crash on exit

2016-02-29 Thread Doug Smythies
Same for me: Feb 29 14:45:51 DOUG-64 named[1202]: connection refused resolving '19.82.133.155.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 37.59.161.64#53 Feb 29 15:35:01 DOUG-64 systemd[1]: Stopping BIND Domain Name Server... Feb 29 15:35:01 DOUG-64 named[1202]: received control channel command 'stop' Feb 29 15:35:01

[Bug 1543794] Re: isc-dhcp-server fails to start on second & further attempts with 'Can't open /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases for append'

2016-02-27 Thread Doug Smythies
Yes, isc-dhcp - 4.3.3-5ubuntu8 fixes the issue with the dhclient stuff that caused this: Feb 26 14:05:21 DOUG-64 kernel: [ 17.518717] audit: type=1400 audit(1456524321.220:10): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="/sbin/dhclient" name="/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf" pid=483 comm="dhclient"

RE: 16.04 - dhcp server does not work with apparmour enabled

2016-02-17 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2106.02.17 20:56 Doug Smythies wrote: > Is there anyone who has a 16.04 dhcp server running yet? > The only way I have been able to make it work on my server > is to either disable apparmour completely, or set /usr/sbin/dhcpd to > complain mode. > I have entered a bug

RE: windows can not access samba share - username case senitivity issue [xenial]

2016-02-17 Thread Doug Smythies
oller" and changed to "standalone server" and it works fine, so far. On 2106.02.16 20:52 Doug Smythies wrote: > Does anyone have some ideas about my samba problems? On 2016.02.06 12:22 Doug Smythies wrote. Thanks for the replies. On 2016.02.06 09:51 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Fe

16.04 - dhcp server does not work with apparmour enabled

2016-02-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi, Is there anyone who has a 16.04 dhcp server running yet? The only way I have been able to make it work on my server is to either disable apparmour completely, or set /usr/sbin/dhcpd to complain mode. I have entered a bug report:

RE: windows can not access samba share - username case senitivity issue [xenial]

2016-02-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Does anyone have some ideas about my samba problems? On 2016.02.06 12:22 Doug Smythies wrote. Thanks for the replies. On 2016.02.06 09:51 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: >> On 2016.02.06 Tom H wrote: >>> On Sat

RE: windows can not access samba share - username case senitivity issue [xenial]

2016-02-06 Thread Doug Smythies
Thanks for the replies. On 2016.02.06 09:51 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: >> On 2016.02.06 Tom H wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: >>>>

RE: windows can not access samba share - username case senitivity issue [xenial]

2016-02-06 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2015.02.06 08:04 Jason Sauders wrote: Thanks for the reply. > One thing to keep in mind is that each samba user must > be a local system user on the box hosting the samba shares. Yes, agreed. > So if you have an Ubuntu box and this Ubuntu box is going to host the > samba shares, and

RE: windows can not access samba share - username case senitivity issue [xenial]

2016-02-06 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2016.02.06 Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: >> I have been attempting to make samba work on an Ubuntu amd64 server 16.04 I >> am building. >> My windows user account name is "Doug". My

windows can not access samba share - username case senitivity issue [xenial]

2016-02-05 Thread Doug Smythies
I have been attempting to make samba work on an Ubuntu amd64 server 16.04 I am building. My windows user account name is "Doug". My Ubuntu user account name is "doug". This appears to be the root issue. The related segment of the smb.conf man page is copied below: username level (G)

[Bug 1493156] Re: pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU offline, as of kernel 4.2

2016-01-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to pm-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1493156 Title: pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU

[Bug 1515207] Re: /bin/login aborted due to pointer double free in libpam.so

2015-12-09 Thread Doug Smythies
I think, but am not sure, this bug report is the root issue for failure of the daily server 64 iso installation when "samba server" is selected. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1493156] Re: pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU offline, as of kernel 4.2

2015-11-22 Thread Doug Smythies
As of kernel 4.4-rc1 this bug becomes invalid, as the kernel was patched such that this issue no longer occurs. I'll wait until kernel 4.4 is finished, check again, then set the status of this bug report to invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1493156] [NEW] pm-suspend aborts if highest numbered CPU offline, as of kernel 4.2

2015-09-07 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Kernel 4.2 includes a significant commit (87549141d516aee71d511138e27117c41e8aef68), after the patch the files and directory are present even if the CPU is offline. If the CPU is offline, writing to those files isn't allowed and so the echo in 94cpufreq fails. If the failed

[Bug 1484587] Re: CPU frequency management fails to re-engage on resume from suspend

2015-09-06 Thread Doug Smythies
, just use primitive commands and not these higher level utilities (that I neither use or know anything about). For example use: grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo to observe CPU frequencies. The commit that, I think, fixes this issue is: commit 6c1e45917dec5e7c99ba8125fd8cc50f6e482a21 Author: Doug Smythies

[Bug 1257186] Re: memory leakage messages (no talloc stackframe)

2015-06-10 Thread Doug Smythies
Chad wrote: Xavier wrote that this needs to be moved somewhere else. Does anyone know how to do that? If someone can explain to me what needs to happen, I changed the trusty target from 14.04.2 (which is in the past) to 14.04.3 (which is in the future, albeit, not far off) ** Changed in:

RE: Errors when pushing to Launchpad

2015-04-01 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2015.04.01 02:04 Dimitri John Ledkov [x...@ubuntu.com] wrote: On 1 April 2015 at 07:34, Ted Cox ted.m@gmail.com wrote: Hi. New volunteer here. I made some edits to the introduction.xml document. I tried to push those edits to my Launchpad account: bzr push

[Bug 1257186] Re: memory leakage messages (no talloc stackframe)

2014-11-13 Thread Doug Smythies
@Coeur: I entered this bug report over 11 months ago, and have simply ignored the error ever since. I haven't had any problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257186

RE: Any changes in kernels the last month (Iptables related)

2014-09-05 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.09.05 01:10 Kim Emax wrote: I was wondering if there´s been any changed in the later kernels? I´m using a ubuntu server with tow nics as a router, firewall, DHCP etc. The last month out of nowhere and without any changes (other than regular updates from apt) my LAN has been fucked

RE: Any changes in kernels the last month (Iptables related)

2014-09-05 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.09.05 09:22 Joseph Salisbury wrote: On 09/05/2014 09:58 AM, Doug Smythies wrote: On 2014.09.05 01:10 Kim Emax wrote: ... Anyway, and in my case, the issue is resolved in the next kernel, or by going back to the previous kernel. Linux doug-64 3.2.0-68-generic #102-Ubuntu SMP Tue

[Bug 1016148] Re: vsftpd *is* configured to allow anon by default

2014-09-02 Thread Doug Smythies
It is the configuration file that is incorrect, not the serverguide, so I am setting this one to invalid for the serverguide. However, I also checked the trusty and utoptic master files, and they are O.K. References:

[Bug 1308756] Re: VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-17 Thread Doug Smythies
are you connecting to a vncserver service running within the guest VM? Or are you connecting to the qemu VNC head on the server which hosts the virtual machines? I connect to the host server IP address port 5900. Also, on which host and environment are you seeing the 'low graphics mode' dialog

[Bug 1308756] Re: VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-17 Thread Doug Smythies
By the way, if I do the opposite: On an new Ubuntu 14.04 server installation with a newly installed guest Ubuntu dekstop; Use virsh edit and change the machine type to pc-1.0, then the quest VM has the same issues upon login. The information requested above: doug@s15:~$ dpkg -l | egrep

[Bug 1308756] Re: pc 1.0 machine type regressed with -vga vmware

2014-04-17 Thread Doug Smythies
I agree with the summary change to pc 1.0 machine type regressed with -vga vmware: And confirm via two new VM desktop guest installations. One was on a 14.04 server host upgraded from from a 12.04 server. The other was on a new 14.04 server. In both cases the machine type was forced on the

[Bug 1308756] Re: pc 1.0 machine type regressed with -vga vmware

2014-04-17 Thread Doug Smythies
Serge, Thanks for the information and the link to even more useful information. So, specifying vram size doesn't work, that is both good to know and explains some things. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1291321] Re: migration fails between 12.04 Precise and 14.04 Trusty

2014-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
My comment may not apply to this, but I'll make it anyhow: I upgraded my host server from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. Afterwards, none of my desktop VM's worked (I haven't even tried the server VM's yet). I made a new guest VM using the exact same virst-install command I had used for the original VM

[Bug 1308756] [NEW] VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: I upgraded my host server from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. Afterwards, none of my desktop VM's worked (I haven't even tried the server VM's yet). During login the VM's complained about being unable to detect the graphics card (screenshot will be posted). Proceeding results in a

[Bug 1308756] Re: VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: screen shot of low graphics message box https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1308756/+attachment/4085756/+files/1404-vm-low-graphics.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu in

[Bug 1308756] Re: VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: screen shot of resulting jibberish screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1308756/+attachment/4085757/+files/1404-vm-jibberish.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu in

[Bug 1308756] Re: VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: a typical .xml file https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1308756/+attachment/4085765/+files/desk_tt.xml.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1308756] Re: VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: a typical xml file, installed under a 12.04 host. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1308756/+attachment/4085766/+files/desk_ss.xml.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu in

[Bug 1308756] Re: VNC graphics issues on guest VMs after server host upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04

2014-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
All the differences in xml files, one from installing a new guest VM on a 12.04 server as the host and one installing the same guest again from the same server upgraded / updated to a 14.04 server host. ** Attachment added: All differences between 12.04 and 14.04 host xml file

[Bug 1284793] Re: [FFE] Merge qemu 2.0

2014-03-18 Thread Doug Smythies
The update of yesterday fixes issues I was having with vmvga. qemu-keymaps 2.0~git-20140317.2bda660-0ubuntu1 all QEMU keyboard maps qemu-kvm 2.0~git-20140317.2bda660-0ubuntu1 amd64 QEMU Full virtualization on x86 hardware

RE: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-14 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.03.13 22:21 Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Ryan Harper (ryan.har...@ubuntu.com): Doug Smythies dsmyth...@telus.net [2014-03-13 16:09]: Now, I can not get my VNC client to communicate with my Ubuntu Desktop VM. Everything is fine and I can see it start up and such but then I always get

RE: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-13 Thread Doug Smythies
Note: I did not include the developer list on this reply because I am not on that list. On 2014.02.15 Serge Hallyn wrote: It would be great if people could start testing the version in this ppa where possible, as early as possible. After Ubuntu desktop 14.04 actually started working, things

RE: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-13 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.03.13 15:30 Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Doug Smythies (dsmyth...@telus.net): On 2014.02.15 Serge Hallyn wrote: It would be great if people could start testing the version in this ppa where possible, as early as possible. After Ubuntu desktop 14.04 actually started working, things

RE: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.03.03 18:49 Serge Hallyn wrote: It looks like at least one of the bugs (dup of a dup of 1055166) is fixed as of 2 hours ago. Hopefully things get better. I checked using my main 14.04 Dekstop VM as a quest on my 12.04 host server. Yes it works. I'll check out the other scenarios

RE: Aiming for Qemu 2.0 in 14.04

2014-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.02.26 10:41 Serge Hallyn wrote: as shown https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1284793 we are hoping to get Qemu 2.0 into 14.04. This is tricky due to the timing - Qemu 2.0 release is scheduled for April 4 ( http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.0 ), with freeze for 14.04

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - TRUSTY

2014-02-06 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.02.06 15:05 Serge Hallyn wrote: Quoting Peter Matulis (peter.matu...@canonical.com): On 01/03/2014 01:08 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Peter Matulis After having spent a good part of the day going through just one file (chapter) I now know how much

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - TRUSTY

2014-01-03 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2014.01.03 07:58 Peter Matulis wrote: On 01/03/2014 10:43 AM, Peter Matulis wrote: On 01/03/2014 01:08 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: I can help; it would be a good way to understand the new format. Should I do what you did and fetch a chapter somehow, edit it and place it somewhere

[Bug 1257186] [NEW] memory leakage messages

2013-12-02 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: This message appears a lot as of a recent update to samba (Trusty development branch): no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4831, leaking memory From this upstream bug report, I am lead to believe the issue is in libpam-smbpass, but I don't really know for

RE: Quick intro

2013-06-13 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2013.06.13 06:15 Jorge Castro wrote: Virtualization really helps here, you can just test on virtual machines on your desktop and throw them away and rebuild them as necessary. As a bonus you can follow these guides and start improving them as you go along:

RE: Calling for Server Guide reviewers/contributors - - Raring

2013-02-16 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2013.02.06 09:26 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:12:28 PM Peter Matulis wrote: On 02/06/2013 12:03 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: ... I don't think it makes sense that Ubuntu core developers don't have the ability to commit changes to the bzr repository.

RE: The Ubuntu Server Guide wants YOU!

2012-03-05 Thread Doug Smythies
with on Ubuntu forums.) Doug Smythies -Original Message- From: ubuntu-server-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-server-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Peter Matulis Sent: March-05-2012 05:16 To: ubuntu-server; ubuntu-doc Subject: The Ubuntu Server Guide wants YOU! Howdy folks