Public bug reported:
2025-01-18 16:26:50,545 DEBUG Marking 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade
2025-01-18 16:26:51,251 WARNING Can't mark 'ubuntu-desktop' for upgrade (E:Unabl
e to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)
2025-01-18 16:26:51,313 DEBUG denylist expr 'update-manager$' matches 'upd
Public bug reported:
Building for 6.10.6-061006-generic
Building initial module for 6.10.6-061006-generic
ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-6.10.6-061006-generic is not s
upported
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.10.6-061006-generic (x86_
64)
Consult /var/lib/
Public bug reported:
Running installer off USB flash drive, got popup saying process crashed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubiquity 22.04.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-40.40~22.04.3-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
Appo
Public bug reported:
I am running an Ubuntu 24.04 desktop in qemu mode on a Proxmox
hypervisor, and have installed the Ubuntu released spice-vdagent
0.22.1-4build3.
When the display is resized away from 1280x800 (by resizing the screen
with "Auto Resize" enabled in the Ubuntu packaged virt-viewer
The problem-specific patch
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Thanks for the problem report.
This was introduced by sox.sf.net commit 61428b3
"Clean up lsx_malloc() and friends" which Debian
imported as a "fix" to CVE-2019-8355.
It's caused by lsx_strdup() being called with a NULL pointer
from src/sox.c line 2370
```
norm_level = lsx_strdup(optstate.arg);
`
Your file is actually an Opus file in an Ogg container. Unfortunately
Debian (and hence Ubuntu) compiles the Opus format handler if
libopusfile-dev in installed but fails to create a libsox-fmt-opus
package from it.
The required patch to the debian source package is at
https://codeberg.org/sox_ng/
While it's not a fix coming from upstream, you can edit /etc/crypttab
and turn this:
```
dm_crypt-0 PARTUUID=decafbad-1234-abcd-5678-1234 /dev/urandom
swap,initramfs
```
into this:
```
dm_crypt-0 PARTUUID=decafbad-1234-abcd-5678-1234 /dev/urandom
swap,initramfs,cipher=aes-xts-p
Public bug reported:
impossible to start ubuntu after upgrade from 22.04 to 23.10
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architectu
Before I saw your post about the environment variable, I edited the
profile in /etc/apparmor.d/firefox to reflect /opt/firefox. If I launch
from a mate desktop icon, or from the menu, all is well. If I click on a
link, from say an email, I get the tab crashed bug again. Is there a way
to work aroun
I have read in a couple other pages that I can edit
/etc/apparmor.d/firefox. Since I'm using version 124 beta 9, and my
firefox is installed in /opt/firefox, do I just adjust the path in that
file to make it work? Thanks much in advance for the help.
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I am seeing this also, as of updating all packages, about fifteen
minutes ago. Is there a definite fix released? This doesn't mean we have
to resort to using firefox from snap, right?
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Not sure if I put the problem description in the right place, so putting
it here as well. I am trying to download programming from my baofeng
uv5r, using Chirp on Ubuntu 22.04. After the progress bar gets to 100%,
I receive the error message "module 'collections' has no attribute
callable."
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Public bug reported:
No further information to add, accept that I am using Chirp from apt,
instead of snap or flatpack.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: chirp 1:20200227+py3+20200213-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-30.31-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-30-generic x8
** Description changed:
1) Ubuntu MATE 21.10
2) grub 2.04-1ubuntu47
3) I use text-mode for Grub, so made the following changes in
/etc/default/grub:
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=timeout
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
I then created a /boot/grub/custom.cfg with the following entries:
color_nor
** Description changed:
1) Ubuntu MATE 21.10
2) grub 2.04-1ubuntu47
3) I use text-mode for Grub, so made the following changes in
/etc/default/grub:
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=timeout
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
I then created a /boot/grub/custom.cfg with the following entries:
color_nor
** Description changed:
1) Ubuntu MATE 21.10
2) grub 2.04-1ubuntu47
- 3) I created a /boot/grub/custom.cfg with the following entries:
+ 3) I use text-mode for Grub, so made the following changes in
/etc/default/grub:
+
+ GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=timeout
+ GRUB_TERMINAL=console
+
+ I then created
Public bug reported:
1) Ubuntu MATE 21.10
2) grub 2.04-1ubuntu47
3) I created a /boot/grub/custom.cfg with the following entries:
color_normal="light-gray/blue"
color_highlight="white/blue"
menu_color_normal="light-gray/blue"
menu_color_highlight="yellow/magenta"
I expect these colors to be used
Norbert, thank you for the quick response. I'm very impressed with
apport automatically updating this bug report with requested info!
I will try the FlatPak version when I have some time, since the next LTS
release isn't until April 2022.
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** Tags added: apport-collected third-party-packages
** Description changed:
I'm running Ubuntu MATE 20.04; I stick with LTS for this system. I use
Evolution for email and calendar. Tonight I got this message:
=
Failed to connect address book “guy.rouill...@gm
This affects
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsys/+bug/index.php?1959017
(for some reason couldn't link the bug URL)
GitHub URL is: https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/220
** Also affects: zsys (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Public bug reported:
Originally reported the bug in [zsys's github
issues](https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/220), wanting to link to
zfs-linux bug, reporting it here to link it.
**Describe the bug**
This isn't a bug in `zsys` so much as a bug in the way Ubuntu manages ZFS
packages which `zs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-
linux/+bug/1947568/comments/1
This is my exact issue as well, elbit using a focal based distro -
Zorin:
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Zorin
Description:Zorin OS 16
Release:16
Codename: focal
$ uname
Confirm same issues with Kubuntu 20.04 (fully patched). Affects multiple
applications inc. Konsole, Chromium, Firefox. Also confirm that
following some of the suggestions in this archlinux HowTo *FIXED* the
issues I was experiencing. NOTE that one does NOT have to reboot for
these changes to take a
Public bug reported:
I attempted to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to a newer LTS version, but
the process keeps failing, even after PPA were removed. Please see
output from terminal:
(base) guy@EOA1:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [1,554
I had forgotten I had submitted this bug report, and just encountered
this same issue when I upgraded from 21.04 to 21.10. I reported my
problem with this latest upgrade on the Ubuntu Mate Community forum. At
least I'm consistent: the post there reads almost exactly like my bug
report here. :)
S
Public bug reported:
guy@x360:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,272 kB
Same behavior still exists on Ubuntu Mate 21.10. Just installed it on my
home PC this mornin.
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Title:
Unable to on or off the orca screenreader o
Public bug reported:
I recently updated to Ubuntu mate 21.10, from 21.04. I am unable to
browse the web, using the snap version of firefox, provided by default
in this release. With Orca running, launch firefox, and it will report
inaccessible. I have another 21.10 machine where I have removed th
This was a problem for me as well with a RTL8821CE card on my laptop.
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Title:
geoclue polls wpasupplicant SSID list too often, resulting in lag a
I chose gparted because that is the program I’m trying to run. Really
against that and orca.
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Title
Public bug reported:
I am using a flash drive with Ubuntu mate 21.04 live image loaded on it, in
Uefi mode.
Reproduce the bug by:
1. Start Ubuntu mate live
2. When you hear tones, press super+alt+s, orca will say screen reader on.
3. Tab to try ubuntu
4. Once on desktop, press ctrl+alt+t to bring
Not sure if this will help or not, but I too am having the same
installer bug. Along with this, I cannot drop to a terminal and run
something like gparted. I have no speech, and alt+tabbing results in
Orca saying gparted as super-user. Ubuntu live images are a huge
trouble-shooting tool in my day t
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1231091 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1231091
I'm not sure if this helps or not, but along with not being able to read
the installer in Ubuntu Mate 20.10 and 21.04, I also cannot read such
programs as gparted if I drop and launch them from a terminal. I
I am on bionic and as the fix is out, this should work. It does not, so
please reopen.
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Title:
Full text search does not work
To manage notifica
I also have this issue in 20.04. Please flag the regression.
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Full text search does not work
To manage notifications about this bug go to
Copying over my workaround from
https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/170#issuecomment-826359558 :
Just to chime in, I've been having the same issue myself.
Following @ddnexus's [analysis of the
issue](https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/170#issuecomment-715901655_), the
workaround is rather s
I just saw this issue posted on Reddit.
I simply had to answer the OP's question - this is Linux, if it doesn't bother
the maintainers then they don't bother fixing it.
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I'm still seeing this message in Ubuntu Mate 20.04 on December 22,2020:
"W: /sbin/fsck.btrfs doesn't exist, can't install to initramfs"
Has the released fix just not been incorporated into the distros after
18 months?
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Just wanted to add that this affected me also. I've been aware for many
months that support for 32-bit Ubuntu has been dropped. So, I was
surprised when I started up this system I use only for backups to see
the following message on the console:
New release '20.04.1 LTS' available.
Run 'do-r
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1899437 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899437
Public bug reported:
plantage de la mise à niveau Ubuntu 20.04
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: libglib2.0-cil 2.12.40-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-54.60-generic 5.4.65
Una
Public bug reported:
Dans la mise à jour des PPA
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.38
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-118.119-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-118-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.17
Architecture: amd64
C
Public bug reported:
Impossible d'évaluer la mise à niveau
Un problème insoluble est survenu lors du calcul de la mise à niveau.
Cela a probablement été causé par :
* des paquets logiciels non officiels qui ne proviennent pas d’Ubuntu.
Veuillez utiliser la commande « ppa-purge » du paquet
« p
Can you stop launching wget or curl as root? -- Please!
Launching a web crawler/browser such as wget or curl as super user root is a
bad design
specially if it runs in background without user consent and knowledge every 12h
on all
Ubuntu Desktop and Server based devices worldwide.
It does not
Ubuntu decided to remove uptime from motd-news' data leak (exfiltration)
via User-Agent: and move /etc/default/motd-news conffile to the motd-
news-config package and switch from curl to wget.
Remove uptime from the motd-news user agent
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/18
Facing this issue as well with 5.7.7 on 20.04.
Tried to use logiops and libratbag to configure the mouse better (MX
Master 3).
Right now I have two unified receiver dongles connects because I have
not taken the time to pair all devices to a single receiver. Would love
pointers on how to fix this.
On my point of view, it's NOT enough to implement a legal notice
https://ubuntu.com/legal/motd with technical errors and it is not
possible to verify that Canonical does not store the IP address of
Ubuntu users in Apache log (the default) and/or database without an
external auditor (PwC, EY, KPMG,
I added https://ubuntu.com/legal/motd to Archive.org's Internet Wayback
Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20200713070037/https://ubuntu.com/legal/motd
** Attachment added: "canonical-legal-motd.pdf"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5392271/+files
unchpadlibrarian.net/487031529/ubuntu-desktop-2004-privacy.png
Forwarded Message
Subject: Re: Unremovable motd-news used as Telemetry and Advertising tool
without explicit consent
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:00:29 +0100
Dear Guy
Thank you for your patience.
Please now see the legal notice for M
https://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-under-fire-for-putting-ads-in-the-ubuntu-motd-530372.shtml
Article like "Canonical Under Fire for Putting Ads in the Ubuntu MOTD"
miss the point that motd-news is not only displaying Advertising in the login
prompt but it a Privacy Nightmare because it ha
** Attachment added: "motd.ubuntu.com hosted in the Amazon EC2 cloud in Dublin,
Leinster, Ireland"
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** Attachment added: "Sample motd.ubuntu.com Ads from 2020"
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** Attachment added: "motd.ubuntu.com is up since 2017"
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** Attachment added: "motd.ubuntu.com current Advertising for Canonical
Products"
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** Attachment added: "motd-news ENABLED by default with telemetry every 12h
Without Consent"
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User-Agent"
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and IP Address every 12 hours Without Consent"
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installation Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 Without Consent"
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No updates from Canonical's legal departement
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
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motd-news is part base-files so it cannot be removed from Ubuntu Desktop,
Server or Core.
if you need to report a bug use
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+filebug
On my point of view, motd-news is a Telemetry tool hidden in a Message of the
Day (MOTD)
serving Ads for Canoni
This might only be a BIOS related issue with my machine. I was able to
solve the problem by disabling 'safe boot' and the wifi menu appeared in
the settings of Ubuntu!
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Cant connect via wireless but wifi card shows up under "lspci".
Bluetooth function works on the same card but I see no wifi options in
the settings menu; can only connect using Ethernet.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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FYI Canonical's legal departement is reviewing motd-news "feature" (such as
telemetry)
and will provide updated information next week.
All motd-news related tickets
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
files/+bugs?field.searchtext=motd-
news&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.st
I will first contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of Canonical Group
Limited
dataprotect...@canonical.com
https://ubuntu.com/legal/data-privacy
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I have decided to contact ICO (Information Commissioner's Office).
Because Canonical Ltd. has handled my personal information
(IP address, Hardware CPU, Choice of Cloud Hosting, and various meta-data)
and the one of the company I work for without concent.
The same apply to all users of Ubuntu (
Best practices by Dustin Kirkland
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man5/update-motd.5.html
- No mention of curl running as root
- No mention of the exfiltration of private data done via User-Agent
- No mention of the novel concept of advertising via motd
- No mention of using motd-ne
And don't tell me that the fact that Canonical use motd as Telemetry was done
transparently,
with clear documentation... most users complain only about the advertising but
don't realize
that the motd-news is used as telemetry tool but seems to act as a advertising
/ news purpose
and the risk of
By the current design, you don't give choice to the Ubuntu users as they cannot
opt-out BEFORE
the laptop or server contacts motd.ubuntu.com sending the telemetry. By
implementing it as
essential package, you don't let user remove it but only disable it when it is
too late.
The same apply to la
Maybe as manager of the Ubuntu Server team, you should ask to improve motd-news
software
to not curl as root.
You should also improve landscape and landscape on premises level of access so
any users
cannot list all processes and reboot any servers or execute shell script as
root.
Good luck, I
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557
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https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557
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Title
Privacy:
Ubuntu users don't have the opportunity to opt-out from motd-news before all
the private infos
and telemetry are sent via User-Agent. So even if people change ENABLED=1 to
ENABLED=0
in /etc/default/motd-news they only stop future leaks but the initial leak has
already been
done in back
All messages received over a year (Ubuntu 18.04):
* Congrats to the Kubernetes community on 1.16 beta 1! Now available
* Kata Containers are now fully integrated in Charmed Kubernetes 1.16!
* Keen to learn Istio? It's included in the single-package MicroK8s.
* Kubernetes 1.18 GA is now available!
motd-news vs privacy / security / telemetry
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Title:
add a motd script for news
The usage of motd-news as Advertising media for Canonical products is well
documented.
Now we need to know if Canonical share the crafted User-Agent with sensible
info in it with third party and use it for telemetry like Microsoft Windows 10.
Samples output of motd-news mirrored in both login pr
I don't think it was safe decision to link the security of Ubuntu
base OS to curl running as root every 12 hours via motd-news just
to display Ads for products and not important security messages
like suggested in the original ticket (1637800).
Just imagine the consequence of https://motd.ubuntu.
I recommend the following action points to restore a bit of trust in Ubuntu
Product
after the introduction of motd-news by Dustin Kirkland (Ex- VP Product at
Canonical)
- Run all motd scripts including motd-news AND curl as non privileged
account -- not as root
- Move motd-news functionality f
The original request for motd-news came from Dustin Kirkland on
2016-10-30
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1637800
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Titl
motd-news is present in Nvidia Jetson Nano (derived from Ubuntu)
and Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi. It is enabled by default and also calling Home
Ubuntu via Amazon Cloud.
motd-news is also present in Ubuntu Core 18 for embedded systems (like Tesla
Car)
but unlike Ubuntu Server and Desktop Distro it is
This is more than just a Telemetry, It as a Trojan in Ubuntu Distro.
A remote code-execution (RCE) vulnerability
in all Ubuntu of the world! Why?
Simple
curl is launched as root (not the best practice!),
and Ubuntu Distro fetch https://motd.ubuntu.com multiple times per day
if someone (like 3-
Thanks Canonical for this great Telemetry master piece
hidden in a Daily "News" (Message of the Day) deep inside
the core of Ubuntu.
I found it active on all the Ubuntu laptop of my friends
and coworkers, all Ubuntu servers from local ISP and my
work. As well as on all Ubuntu flavours and Ubuntu d
Please give the Message of the Day (MOTD) every time I get online on the
Internet
or I reboot my Ubuntu computer ...
Hold on, connecting to Amazon Cloud (Amazon Data Services)
motd.ubuntu.com ...
Your message of the day is
Building Trust is Hard, Breaking Trust is Easy
In exchange, please giv
Part of the base OS ... resistance is futile
dpkg -L base-files | grep motd-news
/etc/default/motd-news
/etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.service
/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer
sudo grep news /var/log/syslog
Jun 4 04:44:22 mbx 50-motd-news[94986]: * MicroK8s get
Well known...
https://twitter.com/search?q=ubuntu%20motd-news&src=typed_query&f=live
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Thanks security-conscious Dustin Kirkland for this great bash script
("I've insisted on shell here for transparency! - Dustin ")
and other contributions like NSA's SELinux or security sensible
software like Pollinate (Entropy-as-a-Service in the cloud) via
https://entropy.ubuntu.com
Packing so m
Anyone privacy-conscious using any version of Ubuntu should do this in a shell
ASAP
sudo sed -i -r 's/(ENABLED)=.+/\1=0/' /etc/default/motd-news
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This ticket should be updated to Security issue +250 points
I highly doubt that this Motd News "feature" is compliant with EU's
General Data Protection Regulation since daily reporting of computer's
infos are proceeded without the user's consent. Cf. GDPR application
comments [https://gdpr.eu/eu-g
** Tags added: bionic cosmic disco
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To manage n
Regarding #28
"on 20.04 LTS and v5.6 is not working properly with WiFi."
When I first tested Kernel 5.6 branch, the WiFi was broken because of this:
https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.6.2_Is_Released_With_Intel_Wifi_Fix
Now it is working again with the current 5.6 branch.
Kernel 5.5 is now EOL (a
I tested the test kernel 5.4 for about a day without issue
but all my computers using Intel GPU are using by default
kernel 5.5. I don't want to change that.
If you want to follow other users having the same kind of
issues with different i915 bugs on different Linux distro
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Public bug reported:
package chromium-browser (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: new
chromium-browser package pre-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 1
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: chromium-browser (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ub
As 5.5 is more stable on my Dell XPS 13 than 5.4 with Intel iGPU (i915)
I did the following one-liner to install the latest version of Linux Kernel 5.5
on Ubuntu 20.04
which curl >/dev/null 2>&1 || sudo apt-get install -qq -y curl; for
version in $(curl -sL https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/m
https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.32/CHANGES
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ubuntu-
kernel/patch/20200407222740.7671-2-sultan.alsa...@canonical.com/
Note that this bug only affects 5.4 and has since been fixed in 5.5.
Normally, a backport of the fix from 5.5 would be in or
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