[Bug 2092365] Re: Is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ down temporarily or closed?

2024-12-23 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (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.launchpad.net/bugs/2092365 Title: Is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ down temporarily or cl

[Bug 2092365] Re: Is https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ down temporarily or closed?

2024-12-22 Thread Doug Smythies
I confirm your findings, from a Firefox on a windows computer. ubuntu-docs is only responsible for the desktop help content. For example https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/index.html. So, I don't know that the "Affects" part is correct, but don't know what else it would be. -- You receiv

[Bug 2086499] Re: lumisoty setting not vailable under system menu

2024-11-01 Thread Doug Smythies
It depends on the hardware, and would only be shown if it is available and supported by Ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2086499 Title: lumisoty setting not vailable under syste

[Bug 2086200] Re: apt: link can't work at this point in the documentation

2024-10-31 Thread Doug Smythies
Other apt links in the html docs. I thought the links are present for use within the yelp version of the docs, but they don't seem to work from there either. ** Attachment added: "other-apts.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/2086200/+attachment/5833468/+files/ot

[Bug 2086200] Re: apt: link can't work at this point in the documentation

2024-10-31 Thread Doug Smythies
apt links are supposed to be removed for the html versions of the help documents. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208

[Bug 2058785] Re: Blank screen after login on 2nd reboot after install or upgrade. 24.04

2024-04-20 Thread Doug Smythies
As of recent updates, this issue seems to be fixed. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2058785 Title: Blank screen after login on

[Bug 2059801] Re: No PDF downloads at the official website

2024-03-30 Thread Doug Smythies
I confirm your findings. I also found this: https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-is-now-on-github/ which does suggests it is the official site. The ones I found were from just searching via a search engine. ** Changed in: xubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received th

[Bug 2059801] Re: No PDF downloads at the official website

2024-03-29 Thread Doug Smythies
Please provide the URL you are referring to. Both the "A4" and "US letter" PDF links work fine from here: https://docs.xubuntu.org/current/user/C/index.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 2059651] Re: network-manager gets uninstalled on apt full-upgrade

2024-03-29 Thread Doug Smythies
The "sudo dhcpcd" command worked to get my network back. I had to do another update/upgrade cycle before network-manager would re-install. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2059651 Title:

[Bug 2059651] Re: network-manager gets uninstalled on apt full-upgrade

2024-03-28 Thread Doug Smythies
After the extensive upgrades of today no network. As per this bug report, network-manager seems to be gone. In my case this is a 24.04 Ubuntu Desktop QEMU/KVM VM running on my main Debian server host. In my case the command was "sudo apt dist-upgrade" ** Attachment added: "dpkg listing" https

[Bug 2058785] Re: Blank screen after login on 2nd reboot after install or upgrade. 24.04

2024-03-23 Thread Doug Smythies
After a fresh install (from the 2024.03.23 ISO in this case) everything is fine if I don't change the screen resolution from the default of 1014X768. Issues start once I change the display to 1680X1050, but seems to recover after an idle time screen blank/lock cycle. It seems I get into trouble bec

[Bug 2058785] Re: Blank screen after login on 2nd reboot after install or upgrade. 24.04

2024-03-22 Thread Doug Smythies
Note that interestingly, the newly installed VM screen did start working after an unknown amount of time. I have reboot since and it still isn't working after some minutes. I had disabled screen locking and screen blanking when it last worked, which might be relevant as those wore the operating

[Bug 2058785] [NEW] Blank screen after login on 2nd reboot after install or upgrade. 24.04

2024-03-22 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: I installed 24.04 on a VM under my main Debian server host on 2024.03.17 and using the daily. It worked fine. After upgrade yesterday and after the 2nd re-boot the screen is blank after login. The screen is okay during re-boot, which I initiaited via an ssh session (I had i

[Bug 2058660] Re: screen lock docs missing step

2024-03-21 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 2049405 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2049405 The referred to missing URL is expected because the 11.04 documents have been deleted after it hit EOL many many years ago. I set this as a duplicate. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 2049405

[Bug 2058153] Re: brz crashed with launchpadlib.credentials.TokenAuthorizationTimedOut in wait_for_end_user_authorization(): Timed out after 900 seconds.

2024-03-18 Thread Doug Smythies
I figured out that I can copy and paste the link into any browser on any computer and then give permission for "this program to access Launchpad on your behalf". Therefore I am able to continue with my work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 2058153] Re: brz crashed with launchpadlib.credentials.TokenAuthorizationTimedOut in wait_for_end_user_authorization(): Timed out after 900 seconds.

2024-03-17 Thread Doug Smythies
I do not know why does this (the first line is normal and is present for context, the second isn't): doug@desk-nn:~$ bzr whoami "Doug Smythies " doug@desk-nn:~$ bzr launchpad-login dsmythies The authorization page: (https://launchpad.net/+authorize-token?oauth_token=

[Bug 2058153] [NEW] brz crashed with launchpadlib.credentials.TokenAuthorizationTimedOut in wait_for_end_user_authorization(): Timed out after 900 seconds.

2024-03-17 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: It seems to have crashed after a timeout period of 900 seconds. I don't know what it wanted or why, as I was merely trying to tell bzr my user name in the very same way I have been doing for over a decade. I do not know why some request for interaction with a browser was being

[Bug 1970588] Re: screen-shot-record.html doesn't reflect surprisingly swapped print screen key behaviour

2022-05-23 Thread Doug Smythies
I thought the gnome version might be available to view, but I couldn't find it. I couldn't remember their development directory name, but, after many failed attempts, finally found the "unstable" directory: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/unstable/screen-shot- record.html.en#keyboard-short

[Bug 1950914] Re: [daily jammy-live-server-amd64] Hangs at start of VM installation

2022-04-26 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K. thank you for your input. I confirm deletion of "--video=vmvga" allows things to continue. Historically, that was needed in and since 2013, when the default video "cirrus" did not work. I now observe the default video is "qxl" which seems to work. Ya, apport logs are not needed for this bug.

[Bug 1873803] Re: Unable to create VMs with virt-install

2022-04-22 Thread Doug Smythies
Since the legacy installer is no longer available, is it correct to say the workaround is no longer an option? I am unable to even get started with a 22.04 server VM install on my Ubuntu 22.04.4 server host. I submitted bug #1950914 months ago, and wonder if it is duplicate with this bug. I use

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-19 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1968757 Title: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide To

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-18 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1968757 Title: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide To

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-18 Thread Doug Smythies
tatus: New => In Progress ** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-17 Thread Doug Smythies
An issue with the various reddish background banners is that everyone seems to use something a little different for RGB. Examples: 233/84/20; 220/70/29; 208/86/48; 221/72/20 and so any logo that has a visible red area around the white circle of friends part has a visible transition against such a b

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
This is the hack job PNG file I created for the test. Obviously the box will have to be more X direction pixels, which shouldn't be an issue. ** Attachment added: "new header PNG hack job" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1968757/+attachment/5581112/+files/new-header.

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
I did a hack job to make a new header_logo.png file. I used the same foot print of 292X27 pixels, which doesn't fit the entire string, so it'll have to be bigger. The background has some texture, so one can see the outline of the circle of friends part. The png file isn't global, after all. I was

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Changing the html pages header logo is going to be a little more work. It'll have to have more pixels vertical so as to include the rectangle. But then perhaps not because the background is RBG: 221.72.20 anyway, so nobody will be able to see its borders. The word "documentation" is truncated sligh

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K. I am attaching another 32X32 logo with transparent side bands. This is not official and for test purposes only. Yes, Marcos, I believe your version ended up too narrow. The issue is that the earlier one I created was re-sampled from a 793X514 pixel original, and: 1, the bicubic filter introdu

[Bug 1968757] Re: [UIFe] New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Hi Gunnar, For the HTML banner part: Yes, and I hadn't even noticed that it would need updating also. So we would also need an official version of it. For the 32X32 PNG file: So sorry. The one I created was just for a test, and never intended to be the official version. I actually thought/hoped i

[Bug 1968757] Re: New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-15 Thread Doug Smythies
Just as a test, I created a 32X32 pixel rectangle logo example. This screen shot is rather zoomed in. It doesn't look very good on a normal screen. Regardless, we would need master files to replace what we are using now. That would be a 32X32 pixel PNG file and a favicon.ico file for the HTML publ

[Bug 1968757] Re: New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-13 Thread Doug Smythies
I observe that even at ubuntu.com the favicon.ico has not changed. What we use is based on the favicon.ico. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1968757 Title: New icon still not present on

[Bug 1968757] Re: New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-13 Thread Doug Smythies
Okay, thanks Gunnar for pointing me in the right direction. I did not know. Something like the attached would be all we could do quickly. While not of the proper rectangle dimensions, it is a square (and probably a few pixels too big), it at least would have the new look for the circle of friends p

[Bug 1968757] Re: New icon still not present on Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2022-04-12 Thread Doug Smythies
Just for clarity, is the attached a representative example of what is being asked for? ** Attachment added: "An example of what is being asked for" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1968757/+attachment/5580220/+files/docs-logo-question.png -- You received this bug n

[Bug 1967947] Re: WiFi will not connect to open WiFi with complicated re-direct

2022-04-06 Thread Doug Smythies
We are simple volunteers here on the Ubuntu-docs project. We have no clue how to help you and/or change the documentation in such a way as to help you. We wish we could. I suggest you ask a question on askubuntu.com or on ubuntu forums. -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 1966633] Re: wrong keyboard shortcuts for switching workspaceserror

2022-03-28 Thread Doug Smythies
Reference: shell-workspaces-switch.html, shell-workspaces-switch.page confirmed on a 22.04 VM desktop. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

[Bug 1965942] Re: Netmask should be replaced by Prefix?

2022-03-22 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K., and after some reading about IPv6, I agree with Manfred. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1965942 Title: Netmask should be replaced by Prefix? To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1965942] Re: Netmask should be replaced by Prefix?

2022-03-22 Thread Doug Smythies
Netmask is the correct term. I don't currently have a desktop running to see what is being referred to by prefix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1965942 Title: Netmask should be repla

[Bug 1961101] Re: Bluetooth doesn't allow me to remove a device, and it doesn't let me activate it either without previous removal.

2022-02-17 Thread Doug Smythies
Thank you for taking the time to submit a bug report. Unfortunately this is not a bug in the help docs, but more a user or specific Bluetooth device issue, which might get better visibility and help via askubuntu.con or ubuntuforums.org or similar. I have to set this to invalid. ** Changed in: u

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
I would still likes to know what MSR 0x64F says, as per comment #20. Yes, thermald should have been disabled for all of this stuff, and I thought it was. Recall one the askubuntu threads, where I suggested writing 0x4005C to MSR 0x1FC. Do so at your own risk. Your hardware seems to have issues,

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Your processor is indicating this: PROCHOT# or FORCEPR# Event (bit 2, RO) — Indicates whether PROCHOT# or FORCEPR# is being asserted by another agent on the platform. The related sticky log bit is also set. This is something I suspected a couple of months ago, on one of those askubuntu threads.

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Sorry, 0x16f was wrong, it should have been 0x64F. I have no idea why you are doing strace on this stuff. Since you haven't used my decoder, it will be sometime before I manually decode. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
Since the intel_pstate driver is asking for 3.4 GHz, but the processor itself is only granting 0.8 GHz we now know that the throttling is within the processor and not externally driven. It might be related to what koba noted in comment #8, I don't know. The processor has MSRs with bits to indicat

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-04 Thread Doug Smythies
When the frequency seems stuck at 800 MHz, then please put a load on a CPU and look at the pstate request and granted MSR's. Example, where I force CPU 2: $ taskset -c 2 yes > /dev/null and then look at the request and granted pstates: $ sudo rdmsr --bitfield 15:8 -u -a 0x199 8 8 48 8 30 8 8 8

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Try changing to the powersave governor. If something else set another pstate request and the intel_pstate driver doesn't know about it, then with the performance governor it might never send a new pstate request. All of this is very similar to a few months ago, on askubuntu and the path of invest

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-04 Thread Doug Smythies
If the intel_pstate scaling driver is "active" then "powersave" is the default governor. If the driver "passive" or the is the acpi-cpufreq driver during boot, then the default governor will be "ondemand". Note that "active-powersave" is crudely the equivalent of "passive-ondemand". You can elimina

[Bug 1945221] Re: CPU frequency stuck at minimum value..again Ubuntu 20.04.3

2021-12-03 Thread Doug Smythies
He is using the intel_pstate CPU frequency scaling driver. Now by default processors without HWP will boot into the intel_pstate driver in passive mode (A.K.A. intel_cpufreq). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 1951399] Re: Ubuntu, Budgie, Kubuntu, Kylin, MATE, Xubuntu: jammy daily fails to install

2021-11-19 Thread Doug Smythies
On the parent page, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/ , it says "Latest images to have passed any automatic testing; try this first" for the "current" directory. And indeed, those files are dated November 5th for the AMD64 versions. And yes, they do install fine, however that is not re

[Bug 1950875] Re: installer crashed. VM installation on a debian server.

2021-11-19 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1951399 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1951399 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1951399 Ubuntu,Budgie, Kubuntu, Kylin, MATE, Xubuntu: jammy daily fails to install -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1951399] Re: Budgie, Kubuntu, Kylin, MATE, Xubuntu: jammy daily fails to install

2021-11-19 Thread Doug Smythies
Norbert wrote: "Surprisingly Ubuntu is not affected, so were installed normally." Disagree. It is affected and does not install. I had set bug #1950875 as a duplicate of bug #1950132, but you removed it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 1215665] Re: With Kernel 3.11RC6 Ubuntu servguide PDF compile crashes

2021-11-14 Thread Doug Smythies
** No longer affects: linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215665 Title: With Kernel 3.11RC6 Ubuntu servguide PDF compile crashes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https

[Bug 1950875] Re: installer crashed. VM installation on a debian server.

2021-11-14 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1950132 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950132 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1950132 jammy jellyfish daily test install crash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 1950875] Re: installer crashed. VM installation on a debian server.

2021-11-13 Thread Doug Smythies
This bug might be duplicate with bug #1950132, not sure. In this case it was AMD64 desktop iso: jammy-desktop-amd64-2021-11-13.iso, 3122440192 bytes, Nov 13 00:37 I have installed Ubuntu Desktop VMs on this Debian host server before, but not recently. -- You received this bug notification becau

[Bug 1950875] [NEW] installer crashed. VM installation on a debian server.

2021-11-13 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: This is a new installation from the daily iso of 2021.11.13. It crashed and wanted to send you this. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: ubiquity 21.10.10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-19.19-generic 5.13.14 Uname: Linux 5.13.0-19-generic x86_64 Nonfree

[Bug 1940749] Re: Hardinfo 'storage' output not showing devices

2021-08-22 Thread Doug Smythies
Since you discovered that it is nvme drives that are not found, doesn't that make this bug report a duplicate of bug #1841037? And read therein that an update release is coming. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 1939233] Re: Bereitschaftmodus Lanverbindung weg?

2021-08-08 Thread Doug Smythies
This is not a documentation bug. ** Description changed: Nach Bereitschaftmodus ist Lan Verbindung & Externe Festplatten weg? + + Translation: Lan connection & external hard drives gone after standby + mode? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: ubuntu-docs 20.04.3 P

[Bug 1939237] Re: Nach Bereitschaftsmodus ist Kabel Lan weg plus ect..?

2021-08-08 Thread Doug Smythies
This is not a documentation bug. ** Description changed: Bereitschaftsmodus Kabel LAN & Externe Festplatten(USB)nicht mehr Verbund? Bei Neustart ist wieder da! + + Translation: Standby mode Cable LAN & external hard drives (USB) no longer networked? + When you restart it is back! Probl

[Bug 1926938] Re: Recent mainline packages are built with Hirsuite 21.04, not Focal 20.04 LTS

2021-05-30 Thread Doug Smythies
Within the context of this bug report it is valid, as it is specifically about the mainline PPA. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 1926938] Re: Recent mainline packages are built with Hirsuite 21.04, not Focal 20.04 LTS

2021-05-22 Thread Doug Smythies
When we try to help people, either here on launchpad or on forums, very often we would like them to try the latest mainline kernel, just as a test to determine if the issue has already been fixed upstream. This bug prevents that useful option for previous Ubuntu versions. This dependency should be

[Bug 1917813] [NEW] HWP and C1E are incompatible - Intel processors

2021-03-04 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: Modern Intel Processors (since Skylake) with HWP (HardWare Pstate) control enabled and Idle State 2, C1E, enabled can incorrectly drop the CPU frequency with an extremely slow recovery time. The fault is not within HWP itself, but within the internal idle detection logic. One

[Bug 1908868] Re: a hot room in my father's home

2020-12-22 Thread Doug Smythies
O.K. there isn't any useful information in this bug report, nor does it sound like a docs issue. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 1872200] Re: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases

2020-05-12 Thread Doug Smythies
I tested apt version 2.0.3. This: sudo apt install gnome-user-docs* gnome-getting-started-docs* whereas it did not before, and I had to use Gunnar's workaround from comment #6 above. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done-focal -- You received this bug noti

[Bug 1875974] Re: driver for acer aspire 5920 Crystal Eye

2020-04-29 Thread Doug Smythies
this doesn't appear to be a bug at all, and not against ubuntu-docs in particular. If the existing kernel module, uvcvideo.ko, doesn't work for you, perhaps look for support on askubuntu.com elsewhere. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug n

[Bug 1874732] Re: Instllation guide has broken links

2020-04-24 Thread Doug Smythies
** Summary changed: - Server docs have broken links + Instllation guide has broken links ** Summary changed: - Instllation guide has broken links + Installation guide has broken links ** Project changed: help.ubuntu.com => installation-guide (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 1874590] Re: Installation guide for 20.04 Server is missing, says to use 18.04 docs but provides no link to 18.04 docs

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
I had troubles compiling the installation guide on a 20.04 computer. Additionally, i had an issue with the redirects to a the new serverguide site. The installation guide will be there past noon UTC. i was not aware of the "Official Doumentation" link issue, but it should also be fixed upon tomor

[Bug 1874590] Re: Installation guide for 20.04 Server is missing, says to use 18.04 docs but provides no link to 18.04 docs

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1874498] Re: 404 ntp documentation: lts/serverguide/NTP.html

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
By the way, once the redirect is fixed it will go to here: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs not here: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/network-ntp ** Branch linked: lp:help.ubuntu.com ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => help.ubuntu.com -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 1874498] Re: 404 ntp documentation: lts/serverguide/NTP.html

2020-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 1872200] Re: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases

2020-04-17 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar : Thank you for the workaround. It solved my problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872200 Title: apt does not accept globs and regexes in some cases To manage notification

[Bug 1868019] Re: [FFe] Add method to enable fractional scaling

2020-03-30 Thread Doug Smythies
Ya, those e-mails to the lists were too big, due to big html and with an embedded png file. So they bounced even after being approved in moderation. I sent an edited e-mail to the lists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
For what it's worth, the versions of things in my test computers, all servers, no GUI: name: serv-ff (a 20.04 VM, that has not had an update since around February 12th): initramfs-tools: 0.133ubuntu14 kmod; 26-3ubuntu1 name: s18 (a physical i5-9600K based computer, up to date as of a few days ag

[Bug 1864436] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file

2020-03-03 Thread Doug Smythies
I think bug 1864992 and this one are duplicates. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864436 Title: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin f

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: kmod (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864992 Title: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not op

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
I have a 20.04 VM that I had not run for awhile (Feb 12th). It has kmod version 26-3ubuntu1, and installed mainline kernel 5.6.0-050600rc4-lowlatency fine. The other two physical 20.04 test servers have kmod version 27-1ubuntu1, and both spew the error 5600 times during kernel installation the fir

[Bug 1864992] Re: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-14-generic/modules.builtin.bin'

2020-03-02 Thread Doug Smythies
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1863261 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863261 I don't think this is duplicate either. I agree that this seems to be in the kernel, but don't yet have proof. If I compile the mainline kernel (5.6-rc4) myself i get this error 5600 times (once per module):

[Bug 1858053] Re: Typo in https://help.ubuntu.com/

2020-01-01 Thread Doug Smythies
change "affects" to appropriate project. ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => help.ubuntu.com ** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) ** Changed in: help.ubuntu.com Status: New => In Progress -- You received th

[Bug 1854653] Re: during shutdown libvirt-guests.sh shouldn't run if libvirtd isn't running

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
For example, this seems to work well: doug@goom-i5:~/config/usr/lib/libvirt$ diff libvirt-guests.sh.original libvirt-guests.sh 114,124c114,126 < i=${CONNECT_RETRIES} < while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do < run_virsh "$uri" connect 2>/dev/null < if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then < retur

[Bug 1854653] [NEW] during shutdown libvirt-guests.sh shouldn't run if libvirtd isn't running

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: The libvirtd service being started during boot doesn't mean it is still running during shutdown. libvirt-guests.sh waits around for 10 seconds trying to communicate with it, re-trying once per second. The desire is that it either doesn't run at all or it checks if libvirtd i

[Bug 1845562] Re: libvirt error Invalid value '+cpu' for 'cgroup.subtree_control'

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
I had this error today. It was on a 20.04 development test server, upon which I was trying to start a freshly installed 20.04 server guest. The error occurred because I had this on my grub command line: cgroup_no_v1=all Once I removed it, the VM started fine. Note that I do not use virt-manager,

[Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
Each CPU can have a different request into the PLL (phase locked loop), but the highest one wins, and their vote does not count if they are in an idle state deeper than C1. You can observe this manually by reading the pstate request and granted MSRs directly (requires msr-tools, and the msr module

[Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
There is only one PLL (Phase Locked Loop) in the processor, all CPUs get the resulting clock. When they go into deep idle states (deeper than C1, at least for my processor) then they give up their vote into the PLL as to what the frequency should be. Your single 100% task is dedicating the CPU freq

[Bug 1768976] Re: Ubuntu 18.04 is overheating after upgrade from 16.04

2019-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
@Davide Sangalli: What you describe and show in your comment #80 is correct and exactly what should happen. Your processor is spending an extraordinary amount of time in C1 as opposed to deeper idle states. At what sampling frequency do you run i7z? I would suggest once every 15 seconds or so, so t

[Bug 869017] Re: Ubuntu server enables screenblanking, concealing crashdumps (DPMS is not used)

2019-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
Ever since the default changed to never blanking the screen, and after I whined in comment #18 above, I have been running this in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" consoleblank=300 " always save a copy of grub first, and do "sudo update-grub afterwards", then re-boot. -- You recei

[Bug 1848581] Re: video rendering running very very slow

2019-10-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Not sure what package is the problem, but am sure it is not Ubuntu-docs. ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848581 Title:

[Bug 1844201] Re: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844201 Title: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies To manage notificati

[Bug 1844201] Re: turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
You do not need any logs for this bug report. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844201 Title: turbostat is over constrain

[Bug 1844201] [NEW] turbostat is over constrained by dependencies

2019-09-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Public bug reported: For processors on which it works, turbostat is a very very good diagnostic tool. For many upstream escalations, it is the preferred tool. However the Ubuntu implementation doesn't actually execute turbostat directly, but rather goes to some script with incredibly tight, and un

[Bug 1817321] Re: installer does not support iSCSI iBFT

2019-09-15 Thread Doug Smythies
the source code for the serverguide is migrating to a different markup language for 20.04. The migration was done a few days before these revisions were committed. They need to be copied to the new source. I am attempting to add "target to series" stuff to this bug report, but it is not working, li

[Bug 1843945] Re: note: new server guide

2019-09-13 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => help.ubuntu.com -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-20 Thread Doug Smythies
Several posters are asking for the mainline builds to be fixed. The mainline builds are an exact reflection of the upstream git master repositories. Therefore they have to wait for Seth's patch submission, which has been picked up and accepted by the kbuild team, to propagate it's way to the mainli

[Bug 1836373] Re: Mainline builds for 5.1 and 5.2 failing for amd64 and i386

2019-07-12 Thread Doug Smythies
This is duplicate with bug 1830961. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836373 Title: Mainline builds for 5.1 and 5.2 failing for amd64 and i386 To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-10 Thread Doug Smythies
If I make the same changes to the Makefile as per the link in comment #16, then the kernel compiles fine and without the zillions of warnings I mentioned in comment #13. However I can not find this anywhere "upstream" as the notes seem to indicate. doug@serv-ee:~/temp-k-git/linux$ git diff diff --

[Bug 1830961] Re: Kernels & kernel drivers fail to build with gcc-9 [error: ‘-mindirect-branch’ and ‘-fcf-protection’ are not compatible]

2019-07-09 Thread Doug Smythies
As per comment #4, i made the same change: doug@serv-ee:~/temp-k-git/linux$ git diff diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3e4868a6498b..68f0858484a5 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -630,8 +630,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -pg endif -RETPOLINE_CFLAGS_GCC := -m

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-27 Thread Doug Smythies
On 2019.05.26 19:18 Daniel van Vugt wrote: > This bug might be getting confused... I disagree. > Doug: You are reporting problems with the radeon > graphics driver, No, I am providing additional information in support of the original bug report, proving that the issue occurs on multiple platform

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
The VM that I revived had not been run or updated since an early development version of 18.04, and it worked fine for playing the help videos. When I updated it, the yelp package did not update, but webkit did: doug@desk-aa:~$ grep -i webkit /var/log/apt/term.log | grep over Unpacking libwebkit2gt

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: webkit2gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804786 Title: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop G

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-25 Thread Doug Smythies
I have 3 computers running Ubuntu desktop edition: An old HP LapTop, 19.04; An old Apple iMac, 18.04; And a VM, 18.04, running on my main Ubuntu 16.04 test server. All 3 have the issues, with one main difference in the 19.04 verses 18.04 "play again" stimulus response. Attached is the "lspci -k

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-19 Thread Doug Smythies
@Gunnar asked: > @Doug: Are you using Nouveau or some other graphics driver? Both desktop computers (one an old MAC with 18.04, and one the old HP LapTop I revived the other day with (now) 19.04) are using Radeon drivers. From the command you gave me off-list: $ lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | gr

[Bug 1804786] Re: Garbage occurred when Playing the video in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

2019-05-17 Thread Doug Smythies
I revived an old LapTop, that had Desktop 18.04 on it. Updated to current 18.04. Verified that this video issue was present. Upgraded the computer to 18.10. Ran one help video about 15 times without any issues. Upgraded the computer to 19.04. Ran the video only 2 times before it messed up. It messe

[Bug 1815290] Re: Qu'est-ce que la touche « Super » ?

2019-02-09 Thread Doug Smythies
That is some regional publication of the help docs, I assume. We know nothing about it and it is also obsolete (17.04 is past EOL (End Of life). That page has been deleted in recent releases. I would suggest you use this link instead: https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/windows-key.html whi

[Bug 1752215] Re: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks for a mysql password

2018-12-29 Thread Doug Smythies
** Changed in: serverguide Assignee: bourne (lahpo) => Doug Smythies (dsmythies) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752215 Title: Server - LAMP installation no longer asks fo

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