[Bug 2097541] Re: 6.8.0-53-generic test causes session crashes with mic/camera use

2025-03-05 Thread Simon Iremonger
Whatever was going on here, seems not to be the case with 6.8.0-54-generic, may also be that the modules-extra package was not installed. In any case, this particular report can be closed for now, fairly sure!. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 2097541] Re: 6.8.0-53-generic test causes session crashes with mic/camera use

2025-02-07 Thread Simon Iremonger
Right; I can confirm FIXED with :- linux-image-6.11.0-17-generic 6.11.0-17.17~24.04.2 ALSO I can confirm that fixes ANOTHER issue we were having with inability to wake up from screen power-off on Thinkpad T490s . My main concern is that all Ubuntu Desktop variants (official and unof

[Bug 2097541] Re: 6.8.0-53-generic test causes session crashes with mic/camera use

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Iremonger
** Description changed: - Testing 6.8.0-53-generic (noble-proposed) on a Thinkpad t490s running Cinnamon desktop causes X11 session crash when 'cheese' and 'gnome-sound-recorder' programs started. Similarly, they do not appear within firefox and so-forth!. + Testing 6.8.0-53-generic (noble-pro

[Bug 2097541] [NEW] 6.8.0-53-generic test causes session crashes with mic/camera use

2025-02-06 Thread Simon Iremonger
Public bug reported: Testing 6.8.0-53-generic (noble-proposed) on a Thinkpad t490s running Cinnamon desktop causes X11 session crash when 'cheese' and 'gnome-sound-recorder' programs started. Similarly, they do not appear within firefox and so-forth!. I've attempted to look for any xorg log err

[Bug 2092628] Re: gscan2pdf not starting on noble-based Linux Mint 22

2025-01-09 Thread Simon Iremonger
This is confirmed and fixed upstream, https://sourceforge.net/p/gscan2pdf/bugs/430/#0abb. I concur, Ubuntu just need that tiny patch in their universe gscan2pdf package, so it works on ubuntu and ubuntu derivatives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1949605] Re: Backport Thunderbird 91 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2022-01-29 Thread Simon Iremonger
I had noticed, on packages.ubuntu.com/thunderbird -- that the new 91.5 wasn't on all architectures, however it is now. Potentially I was noticing what is still the case, that base versions of distro focal,hirsute,impish have an old version in [ports] but an updated single version in -updates on

[Bug 1949605] Re: Backport Thunderbird 91 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2022-01-26 Thread Simon Iremonger
Hrrm, I was about to test and then discovered package released already, though can say all is good so-far. I notice ports (e.g. arm64) not all getting new build... Hope situation is now improved for ongoing updates, at least. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 1949605] Re: Backport Thunderbird 91 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2022-01-14 Thread Simon Iremonger
Debian now have 91.5.0-2 in sid and seem to have long since sorted the portability/architecture issues. @osomon -- Please let us all have a test-package for Ubuntu update testing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:

[Bug 1949605] Re: Backport Thunderbird 91 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2022-01-04 Thread Simon Iremonger
Thunderbird (and Firefox-ESR) 91.4 has been released by Debian with no problems, I believe either current or LTS or both had another package updated in order to support these updates, though I can't seem to find which it is now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 1949605] Re: Backport Thunderbird 91 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-11-09 Thread Simon Iremonger
Both debian and ubuntu seem to have some sort of problem with Thunderbird not managing to build on all architectures, or so, in the latest versions in packages. databases. I notice launchpad has built 91.3.0 packages for ubuntu jamil (presumably equivalent to debian sid or so)... Do let us all k

[Bug 1949605] Re: Backport Thunderbird 91 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-11-04 Thread Simon Iremonger
For what its' worth, the Focal system's provided packages do not meet the following build-deps of the *debian* Thunderbird 91.3.0 package;- cbindgen (>= 0.19) debhelper-compat (= 13) libnspr4-dev (>= 2:4.32~) libnss3-dev (>= 2:3.68~) nodejs (>= 10.19.0) Merely overriding the version dependencies

[Bug 1895643] Re: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-11-03 Thread Simon Iremonger
For what it is worth, this problem is now back -- very soon need the Thunderbird 91.3 installed into Ubuntu as 78.x is about at EOL. Debian have already prepared their packages in Sid (91.2.1 and 91.3.x no doubt shortly to follow). They also offer firefox-esr and do similar work with that packagi

[Bug 1926937] Re: [SRU] Virtualbox new release 6.1.26

2021-08-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
virtualbox-dkms binary package comes from the same source package virtualbox. See https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal-updates/virtualbox -- this is a one-to-many mapping. virtualbox-ext-pack and virtualbox-guest-additions-iso are separate. In any case, al the 6.1.26 packages for 20.04 L

[Bug 1897962] Re: Out of Memory Error with Brother DCP-J7720W

2021-03-12 Thread Simon Iremonger
I can further confirm that this escl buggy driver affects other scanners, e.g. Epson XP-830 just to name *one* but there are endless Escl network printers/scanners these days. Using the PPA:- https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release version 1.0.32 *does* work a lot better!.

[Bug 1895643] Re: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-02-23 Thread Simon Iremonger
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Triaged => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895643 Title: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS To man

[Bug 1895643] Re: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-02-16 Thread Simon Iremonger
** Changed in: jsunit (Ubuntu Bionic) 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/1895643 Title: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS To manage notif

[Bug 1895643] Re: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-02-09 Thread Simon Iremonger
For those curious, focal unapproved-queue is here:- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+queue?queue_state=1 I notice on the linked ubuntu security team ppa, now is 78.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 in fact... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 1895643] Re: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-02-07 Thread Simon Iremonger
Although in this bug, marked 'fix committed' for focal a while now, I can't find the new thunderbird package in either focal-proposed nor focal-security . Also not shown on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+queue Any ideas? -- be useful to see what package queues/links should be kno

[Bug 1724872] Re: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 340.102-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 ADT test failure with linux-hwe-edge 4.13.0-16.19~16.04.3

2021-01-27 Thread Simon Iremonger
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => 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/1724872 Title: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 340.102-0ubunt

[Bug 1886114] Re: package samba-common-bin 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.3 failed to install/upgrade: installed samba-common-bin package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

2021-01-16 Thread Simon Iremonger
The pathway by which this error can occur, is installing package "samba-common-bin" on focal20.04 with no previous samba installation ... -- although there is a /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/samba.conf installed, the package installer seems to end up creating the above error due to not having /run/samba

[Bug 1901829] Re: thunderbird fails to open, xml parse error

2021-01-16 Thread Simon Iremonger
This seems to be related to important suggestion to merge packaging efforts as best as possible:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1894090 ...Not sure if merging-efforts will help with this specific bug, or otherwise, Debian can be learned-from somehow-or-other!. -- Yo

[Bug 1910709] Re: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update brokes nvidia-340

2021-01-14 Thread Simon Iremonger
@Meluco I don't in any way think nvidia-340 likely to affect wifi, but test your wifi on all the kernels, especially 5.4.0-62-generic and 5.8.0-38-generic. Do hold down shift early at system startup to get in GRUB boot menu (exact timing depends upon system), you should be able to get into "Adva

[Bug 1872950] Re: Nvidia 340.108 fails to install with kernels 5.5 onward

2021-01-14 Thread Simon Iremonger
As per tjaalton's link -- new nvidia-340 in focal-proposed for 20.04 users:- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1910709 Needs testing, especially for regressions for those still on Kernel 5.4. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. ht

[Bug 1895643] Re: Backport Thunderbird 78 to 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

2021-01-14 Thread Simon Iremonger
This appears to be imminent update-release for groovy and focal users, packages available:- https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages Apparently, 'fix committed' in part, which presumably means focal-proposed package now here:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

[Bug 1910709] Re: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update brokes nvidia-340

2021-01-13 Thread Simon Iremonger
@ihler [and same comment may apply to others...] How have you ended up with -hwe kernel getting installed anyhow? Default behaviour of particular install iso image? Because clicked some option somewhere? Some sort of 'unintended/accident' and only later found the consequence of k5.8 auto-insta

[Bug 1910709] Re: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update brokes nvidia-340

2021-01-13 Thread Simon Iremonger
Also: For those stuck without Nvidia working on k5.8 -- simple short- term thing to do, is hold down SHIFT at system startup (exact timing depends upon system) to get to the GRUB boot-menu, and then select "Advanced options for Ubuntu" (or thereabouts) submenu and then you should be able to boot fr

[Bug 1910709] Re: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update brokes nvidia-340

2021-01-13 Thread Simon Iremonger
For what its' worth, I built the nvidia-340_340.108-0ubuntu5 package (includes patches to go up to kernel 5.9 apparently) on Focal20.04 -- just using the groovy-updates version and renumbering it back to 20.04.0test0 instead of a 20.10. version. The full source and set of debs is here:- https://w

[Bug 1910709] Re: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update brokes nvidia-340

2021-01-13 Thread Simon Iremonger
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 (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/1910709 Title: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update bro

[Bug 1910709] Re: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update brokes nvidia-340

2021-01-11 Thread Simon Iremonger
I can confirm that there is not yet a new 'nvidia-340' in focal-proposed. Looking at the changelogs this *should* be a very simple case of backporting existing gutsy-updates source to focal just naming it .20.04.1 on the end instead of 20.10.2, in short. I think this needs to be done promptly a

[Bug 1901904] Re: [SRU] virtualbox 6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 ADT test failure with linux-hwe-5.8 5.8.0-25.26~20.04.1

2021-01-09 Thread Simon Iremonger
I can confirm virtualbox-6.1.16-dfsg-6 packages (including -ext-pack and -guest-additions-iso) seem to be working well, even succeeds in 'resuming' a VM that was "saved" under 6.1.10 . Exercised many functions and having no issues as-yet. I tested against the focal-proposed kernel 5.4.0-61, ver

[Bug 1901904] Re: [SRU] virtualbox 6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1 ADT test failure with linux-hwe-5.8 5.8.0-25.26~20.04.1

2021-01-09 Thread Simon Iremonger
@koparebu -- You will need liblzf1 manually downloaded too in order to manually download like that. In any case, once manually installed, unless you went out of your way to 'pin' or 'hold' the packages, apt/update-manager will happily "upgrade" them in future if they are superseded by newer pa

[Bug 1910709] Re: DKMS linux-headers-5.8.0-34-generic update brokes nvidia-340

2021-01-08 Thread Simon Iremonger
@daniel-banobre-dopico Can you confirm this affects the 'released' (focal-updates) kernel 5.8.0-36-generic (install linux-generic-hwe-20.04) ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1910709

[Bug 1903848] Re: Latest kernel update to "5.4.0-53-generic" = Internal audio, USB webcam no longer working

2021-01-03 Thread Simon Iremonger
@rivpelle There are quite a lot of Audio-fixes in Kernel 5.4.0-59-generic which is coming to 20.04LTS imminently, changelog here:- https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/vdw94dvHTy/ Additionally, it seems from focal-proposed packages, linux-generic- hwe-20.04 is about to cause install of 5.8.0-34-generic,

[Bug 1813509] Re: [i915] NULL pointer on Linux 4.18.0-14-generic / cosmic

2021-01-03 Thread Simon Iremonger
@illweckz Please try to close the bug as it seems to apply only to unsupported ubuntu versions and fixed on current LTS kernel (5.4). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813509 Title: [i

[Bug 1891682] Re: [MIR] sane-airscan

2020-12-15 Thread Simon Iremonger
Fwiw, this is likely to be such a common usability problem, LinuxMint decided to provide more useful sane-airscan version directly in their repositories for mint20.1 based open focal20.04. https://github.com/linuxmint/linuxmint/issues/327 Since, Focal 20.04LTS does not have 'sane-airscan' packag

[Bug 1862926] Re: Request for update: SANE 1.0.29

2020-12-10 Thread Simon Iremonger
For what its' worth, the sane escl is buggy even in 1.0.29, installing 1.0.31 improves matters !. Example bug/failure is here, but NOTE is not actually limited to the titled printer:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1897962 -- You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 1891682] Re: [MIR] sane-airscan

2020-10-20 Thread Simon Iremonger
For what its' worth -- r.e. groovy release.. libsane1 (1.0.31-2) seems to include libsane-escl listed normally in dll.conf (i.e. likely a reasonable version of escl, better than focal known-buggy version). sane-airscan 0.99.15-1 is in gusty universe, so will require an SRU in order to be chang

[Bug 1897962] Re: Out of Memory Error with Brother DCP-J7720W

2020-10-07 Thread Simon Iremonger
>From what I can tell, actually the escl buggy driver affects a wide range of Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, Ricoh, Xerox, apple-protocol scanners .., although Mick reported his specific scanner, indications from sane devs and from debian bugs and other anecdotes suggest 'escl' 1.0.29 proble

[Bug 1460447] Re: Boot slow, "scanning for btrfs filesystems" takes 100 seconds

2020-10-01 Thread Simon Iremonger
I can confirm my specific failure was fixed with kernel 5.4.0-48 ... Question for original reporter Dan -- is this issue (slow btrfs scanning) still occuring for you? Now fixed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1897962] Re: Out of Memory Error with Brother DCP-J7720W

2020-10-01 Thread Simon Iremonger
Just for completeness, Mick (original reporting on issue in different forum) said:- $ scanimage -L device `escl:http://192.168.1.94:80' is a ESCL Brother DCP-J772DW flatbed scanner $ scanimage -T Output format is not set, using pnm as a default. Capability : [(null)] Capability : [image/jpeg] s

[Bug 1460447] Re: Boot slow, "scanning for btrfs filesystems" takes 100 seconds

2020-08-30 Thread Simon Iremonger
OK Turns out my btrfs+floppy bug is indeed a kernel floppy matter, and the btrfs scan just 'triggers' the fault. The new kernel floppy maintainer says:- This patch should fix the problem: 263c61581a38 ("block/floppy: fix contended case in floppy_queue_rq()") The commit id in stable tree is 29ed456

[Bug 1460447] Re: Boot slow, "scanning for btrfs filesystems" takes 100 seconds

2020-08-30 Thread Simon Iremonger
I can further confirm that taking out the btrfs scan in /usr/share /initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/btrfs fixes the intermittent boot issue for me. For me, this causes some deadlock between btfs scan and floppy driver and requires reboot, not just slow!. This may be a case of 'separate b

[Bug 1460447] Re: Boot slow, "scanning for btrfs filesystems" takes 100 seconds

2020-08-29 Thread Simon Iremonger
This issue, or variant thereof, has been observed on Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20. I'm not 100% sure yet but it SEEMS to be affecting systems with a floppy drive. Can end up with bootup-messages:- [timestamp] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-generic Scanning for Btrfs filesystems [timestamp] floppy

[Bug 1460447] Re: Boot slow, "scanning for btrfs filesystems" takes 100 seconds

2020-08-29 Thread Simon Iremonger
Oh, and to be clear, both said machines floppy working properly! Not just faulty drive giving timeouts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1460447 Title: Boot slow, "scanning for btrfs f

[Bug 1876238] Re: [Dell Inspiron 1525, SigmaTel STAC9228] No sound at all. Internal Speaker Not Detected. Dummy Output. After Upgrading From 19.10 to 20.04 LTS Focal

2020-08-10 Thread Simon Iremonger
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1876065 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876065 Have observed what appears to be this same bug, on a Dell Latitude D620 laptop!. E.g. using a live-usb, Speakers do not work (though headphones plugged in 3.5mm headphone-jack do!) until pulseaudio upda

[Bug 1882217] Re: [SRU] virtualbox 5.2.*

2020-07-16 Thread Simon Iremonger
FWIW, upstream just released *likely* final version 5.2.44:- VirtualBox 5.2.44 (released July 14 2020) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: API: Fix unintentionally enabled audio due to a settings file version dependent bug VBoxManage: Fix crash of 'VBoxM

[Bug 1871049] Re: FFe: darktable 2.6.3 in focal needs update to 3.0.1

2020-04-23 Thread Simon Iremonger
Thankyou for helpful answer, from what I can see new-features are minor, and there are likely to be many significant bugfixes ongoing that will need including one way or another. In any case, I note neither focal 3.0.1-0ubuntu1 package, nor debian-unstable 3.0.2-1 package succeed in compiling

[Bug 1871049] Re: FFe: darktable 2.6.3 in focal needs update to 3.0.1

2020-04-19 Thread Simon Iremonger
FWIW, Upstream and Debian-"unstable" have now released 3.0.2 ... May be worth Updating now, in any-case keep an eye on upstream bug-fixes ongoing... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18710

[Bug 1819045] Re: vboxweb in 5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.3 ignores VBOXWEB_HOST ip in /etc/default/virtualbox

2019-07-30 Thread Simon Iremonger
Bionic-proposed repository, now has Virtualbox 5.2.32 in there... Can you confirm this fixes the above issue over the bionic 5.2.18 version? If not, it may be possible (if hurry!) to get the community maintainer/updater to fix that issue in proposed update as well. -- You received this bug noti

[Bug 1835576] Re: virtualbox-guest-dkms-hwe 5.2.18-dfsg-3~ubuntu18.04.3 fails to build on 5.0 based kernels [In function ‘VBoxGuest_RTR0MemUserIsValidAddr’: error: macro "access_ok" passed 3 arguments

2019-07-30 Thread Simon Iremonger
I can confirm Virtualbox 5.2.32 working at least as well as 5.2.18, but now builds on newer kernels. I note this also fixes some security vulnerabilities. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 1758023] Re: Mouse acceleration not configurable in Xubuntu 18.04

2018-08-11 Thread Simon Iremonger
FWIW this seems to be the same as issue:- https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=272956 Also known to affect MATE not just xfce ... Seems like issue in this evdev<>libinput underpinning x.org infrastructure, likely? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1773157] Re: procps outdated network options, old syncookies, new ecn update please.

2018-05-31 Thread Simon Iremonger
Right -- systemd have just-now agreed to set the change in their upstream systemd sysctl files :- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/6f130e85c76cfc2c58ba31f90d2ac3800866c1dd I notice, however, that ubuntu's systemd pkg 'strips most those settings out', in 18.04 currently only carrying the

[Bug 1773157] Re: procps outdated network options, old syncookies, new ecn update please.

2018-05-29 Thread Simon Iremonger
It would appear that the path-of-least-resistance at present, is systemd, poettering which is what is (for systemd-booters) where fq_codel is getting turned-on in ubuntu. This raises a wider-issue about bringing systemd-provided sysctl- defaults into procps more widely [systemd has introduced many

[Bug 1601997] Re: Ubuntu 16.10+ installer uses ext4 feature 'metadata_csum' which is incompatible with older (LTS) e2fsprogs

2018-05-27 Thread Simon Iremonger
FWIW: e2fsprogs PPA created and discussion of backports/updates should happen on this linked-bug:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1365874 -- if you are interested in xenial/older e2fsprogs compatibility please subscribe to that bug #1365874 . I also spotted e2fsprogs

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-05-27 Thread Simon Iremonger
Here is the PPA for all architectures, please test :- https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-iremonger/+archive/ubuntu/e2fsprogs-xenial That is currently a backport of the version in bionic release itself, but maintains the xenial mke2fs.conf defaults [creating filesystems without 64bit,metadata_csum] for

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-05-27 Thread Simon Iremonger
Marc, Briefly just to let you know I'm working on a PPA for bionic e2fsprogs backport to xenial, will update when thats' ready. Turns out that:- (a) Ubuntu devs are rather tied-up fixing bionic18.04 bugs, and (b) to do a good SRU would need much regression-testing and somebody to push it forwar

[Bug 1101779] Re: autofs "lookup_mount: exports lookup" fails on IPv6-only hosts

2018-05-27 Thread Simon Iremonger
@ahasenack Andreas, your linked-bug has supposedly been fixed, can you check this autofs bug has therefore also been fixed and comment-further or close again...? Be good to get this sorted-out before 18.04.1, with thanks!. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 940541] Re: [needs-packaging] Bufferbloat: Ubuntu doesn't come with bufferbloat fixes

2018-05-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
Launchpad issue link didn't come out -- LP #1773157 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/1773157 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/940541 Title: [needs-packaging] Buffer

[Bug 1436945] Re: devel: consider fq_codel as the default qdisc for networking

2018-05-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
Launchpad issue link didn't come out -- LP #1773157 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/1773157 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1436945 Title: devel: consider fq_code

[Bug 940541] Re: [needs-packaging] Bufferbloat: Ubuntu doesn't come with bufferbloat fixes

2018-05-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
A lot of comments here seem outdated, however things have moved on in a good-way! Taking reference of https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Linux_Tips/ -- would now seem that many of the bufferbloat fixes HAVE been implemented -- Upstream kernel changes have now introduced tcp_sack tcp

[Bug 1436945] Re: devel: consider fq_codel as the default qdisc for networking

2018-05-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
Interestingly, turns out that seemingly systemd is what is (currently) responsible for turning on fq_codel by default. See:- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/e6c253e363dee77ef7e5c5f44c4ca55cded3fd47 Be nice to then get that suggested into upstream linux as a default and/or procps for 'n

[Bug 1773157] Re: procps outdated network options, old syncookies, new ecn update please.

2018-05-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
(fwiw, fq_codel queuing is now being turned-on in bionic (at least) by systemd, confusingly!). https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/e6c253e363dee77ef7e5c5f44c4ca55cded3fd47 Possibly, turning on ECN might more likely happen there first, but I would like the procps updated for those using upst

[Bug 940541] Re: [needs-packaging] Bufferbloat: Ubuntu doesn't come with bufferbloat fixes

2018-05-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
** Changed in: ubuntu Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Iremonger (ubuntu-iremonger) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/940541 Title: [needs-packaging] Bufferbloat: Ubuntu does

[Bug 57091] Re: proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies=1 should be seriously considered to permit SYN flood defense...

2018-05-24 Thread Simon Iremonger
FWIW Although syncookies has long-since been enabled upstream, the outdated comments in sysctl about syncookies still persist, I have now created new ubuntu bug #1773157 [please comment there]. [This also requests ECN-on-outgoing enablement which has similarly matured etc.]. -- You receive

[Bug 1436945] Re: devel: consider fq_codel as the default qdisc for networking

2018-05-24 Thread Simon Iremonger
>From what I can see, updates in ubuntu have now fixed this, bionic system certainly seems to now be booting with /proc/sys/net/core/default_qdisc = fq_codel now!. Can somebody confirm this and close this bug as 'fixed' ? SECONDLY, Related bufferbloat-matter to make fq_codel work better to avo

[Bug 1773157] [NEW] procps outdated network options, old syncookies, new ecn update please.

2018-05-24 Thread Simon Iremonger
Public bug reported: The ubuntu version of procps carries it's own /etc/sysctl.d/10-network- security.conf file explicitly that appears not to be part of debian procps version. Firstly, the section about "# Turn on SYN-flood protections." (came from LP #57091 ) is now entirely outdated, upstr

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-03-17 Thread Simon Iremonger
HOWEVER, Trusty e2fsprogs backporting situation actually seems to be that, some change between 1.43.3-1~bpo8+1 and 1.43.4-2 is where the trusty-incompatibility has accrued, 1.43.9-2 does NOT build on trusty! :- https://www.iremonger.me.uk/noidx/e2fs/e2fsprogs-1.43.9_trusty_build-fail.log A s

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-03-17 Thread Simon Iremonger
OK On further investigation, I have confirmed a lot of key-facts (1 of 2 linked comments). e2fsprogs 1.44.0-1 backports to xenial with no difficulty whatsoever, passes "make fullcheck" and works in every way I can tell, lots of resizing and checking and use within gparted, etc, all (apparently) be

[Bug 1756177] Re: FFe: e2fsprogs 1.44, support for largedir and ea_inode

2018-03-17 Thread Simon Iremonger
FWIW 'this seems to WORK in bionic, including "make fullcheck" on the source, system able to check itself on boot, resizing other system disks, no issues so far as I can. Thankyou for agreeing//doing this so quickly. Backporting related matters to be discussed separately in:- https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-03-17 Thread Simon Iremonger
e2fsprogs 1.44.0 for bionic18.04 has apparently been agreed:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1756177 [launchpad build-logs suggest its' been built for PROPOSED but not yet seen it 'come through' as a package or appear on 'packages.ubuntu.com' ...]. Hopefully that will go

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-03-15 Thread Simon Iremonger
See linked bug 1601997, response seems to be to accept your 'new' defaults for ext4 in 18.04. I note, particularly -- your request about 1.44.0 inclusion doesn't yet seem to be addressed [maybe it requires a separate bug//issue] ;-(. Do expand on that point if you can. -- You received this bug n

[Bug 1601997] Re: Ubuntu 16.10+ installer uses ext4 feature 'metadata_csum' which is incompatible with older (LTS) e2fsprogs

2018-03-15 Thread Simon Iremonger
Steve: Given what you say, can you consider Tytso's request to put 1.44.0 e2fsprogs into Bionic. This allows for not-enabled-by-default for support of 2 extra ext4 flags in e2fsprogs, thereby avoiding this situation happening again for 20.04 with respect to THOSE flags... As TJ- said, be good t

[Bug 1601997] Re: Ubuntu 16.10+ installer uses ext4 feature 'metadata_csum' which is incompatible with older (LTS) e2fsprogs

2018-03-14 Thread Simon Iremonger
Initial comments from the email:- a) There is some confusion over "metadata_csum" with/without "64bit". -- Those who have 'reverted' are usually reverting BOTH flags [as I've done some places], not just metadata_csum. My understanding is 64bit is of no benefit except support >16TB fs and to st

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-03-14 Thread Simon Iremonger
FWIW, As was discussed, I checked into Grub2 and os-prober in older supported ubuntu (which may have similar incompatibility to e2fsprogs, thereby creating a multibooting issue with 18.04). After experimenting carefully with a 14.04+16.04+18.04 (GA kernels, no HWE specifically) BIOS-style triple

[Bug 1601997] Re: Ubuntu 16.10+ installer uses ext4 feature 'metadata_csum' which is incompatible with older (LTS) e2fsprogs

2018-03-10 Thread Simon Iremonger
Can we pay-attention, to this thread (now) being about considering the feature-flags 'used by default' in mke2fs.conf, in consideration to 18.04 -- [linked bug for e2fsprogs]. We know massive 'compatibility'/portability benefit of formatting the same as previous-LTS by default, as the required e2

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-03-10 Thread Simon Iremonger
Given your other comment (which I think may have been posted to the wrong thread):- [E2fsprogs 1.44.0 now depends on dpkg build-profiles, which means that getting it backported to 14.04 LTS would require adjusting debian/control and debian/rules a bit. For 14.04 LTS, I'd urge consideration of go

[Bug 1601997] Re: Ubuntu 16.10 installer sets metadata_csum option on ext4 partition which is incompatible with other LTS Ubuntu versions

2018-03-10 Thread Simon Iremonger
Canonical please read Theodore Tso's Comment #4 above, and consider for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS! This "64bit,metadata_csum" creates compatibility-issues even with 16.04 LTS, and does not seem to provide a huge benefit [>16TB fs support, slightly stronger metadata checksumming]. This creates all sorts of

[Bug 1365874] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS do not support ext4 metadata checksumming

2018-03-10 Thread Simon Iremonger
Ubuntu 18.04 may well enable (under review) 64bit,metadata_csum by default, thereby creating ext4 filesystems that are not compatible with e2fsck on Ubuntu-16.04 LTS (or 14.04)? This creates all sorts of problems for compatibility/portability of filesystems, for e.g.:- * dual-booting 18.04 and ol

Re: [Bug 57091] Re: proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies=1 should be seriously considered to permit SYN flood defense...

2016-10-07 Thread Simon Iremonger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > Bog standard 16.04 has it turned on (from the above referenced 10 > -network-security.conf). > But, if you then enabled ufw, it gets disabled, due to the default > setting in /etc/ufw/sysctl.conf. > There seems to be serious debate as to whether o

[Bug 57091] Re: proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies=1 should be seriously considered to permit SYN flood defense...

2016-02-15 Thread Simon Iremonger
Upstream kernel have decided to enable syncookies by default (according to that debian bug, since Linux 2.6.37!). This makes sense, as the main downsides have already been resolved (especially window scaling even under syncookies-activation), and this feature only kicks-in if the SYN-queue is ov

[Bug 1101779] Re: autofs "lookup_mount: exports lookup" fails on IPv6-only hosts

2016-02-15 Thread Simon Iremonger
There have been various upstream ipv6 related fixes in the debian/ubuntu changelogs,, imported from upstream and otherwise. Is this bug still present in debian stretch and ubuntu xenial with newer autofs packages ? I'd suggest testing ubuntu-xenial in particular as the next LTS release (underp

[Bug 891433] [NEW] squid3 miss_access bug, fix not included in LTS

2011-11-16 Thread Simon Iremonger
Public bug reported: This bug:- http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3326 Is still present in the Precise12.04-LTS squid3, 3.1.15-1ubuntu2, which has become the main version of squid as of Precise12.04. This is a one-line-fix (though I had to merge it manually):- http://www.squid-cache.or

[Bug 842586] Re: sflphone FTBFS (unavail. b-d libedateserverui1.2-dev) and is NBS

2011-10-29 Thread Simon Iremonger
There is a PPA of the 1.0.0-rc versions that may be acceptable to you ... https://launchpad.net/~savoirfairelinux/+archive/sflphone-nightly But this is a nightly-build, not a release-version as such... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 869127] Re: Please add sflphone package for Oneiric

2011-10-29 Thread Simon Iremonger
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 842586 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842586 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 842586 sflphone FTBFS (unavail. b-d libedateserverui1.2-dev) and is NBS -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 842586] Re: sflphone FTBFS (unavail. b-d libedateserverui1.2-dev) and is NBS

2011-10-29 Thread Simon Iremonger
The fundamental problem here, seems to be, that sflphone is built against gnome2 style 'libedataserverui1.2-dev' and this is not available with Gnome-3 (although some of the other libraries such as libedataserver1.2 ARE still there). I'm not 100% sure but I think the 'right thing to do' is make sf

[Bug 824080] Re: missing binary package linux-headers-2.6.35-30

2011-09-02 Thread Simon Iremonger
As far as I can tell, this is now in the motions of being fixed via lucid-proposed. linux-headers-2.6.35-30 ver 2.6.35-30.58~lucid1 is there and 2.6.35-30.59 will be soon apparently. I guess when it appears, a good idea would be to test the version in lucid-proposed and report back on Bug 838043

[Bug 829658] Re: linux-lts-backport-maverick: 2.6.35-30.58~lucid1 -proposed tracker

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Iremonger
Please take note of related bug, which is collecting many duplicates etc. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824080 With thanks, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/829658 Title: linux-lts-ba

Re: [Bug 57091] Re: proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies=1 should be seriously considered to permit SYN flood defense...

2009-10-09 Thread Simon Iremonger
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Has this request been forwarded upstream (lkml)? Not that I am aware of. It would be good for this confusion/misinformation to get sorted out properly. Why is it that some wish to make sweeping statements and not understand the whole situation?

Re: [Bug 57091] Re: proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies=1 should be seriously considered to permit SYN flood defense...

2009-09-25 Thread Simon Iremonger
>> Ah, nice. I kinda expected a link to the package version in which it got fixed. The silly thing is There is misinformation in the /etc/sysctl.conf now! It says:- "# This disables TCP Window Scaling (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/5/167)" First of all that is incorrect as a blanket statement.

Re: [Bug 203023] Re: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20060613/imagick.so' - libWand.so.9

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Iremonger
> Thanks for your quick response, here are the 3 pieces of information you > requested. > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.2" [...]i686 GNU/Linux > ||/ Naam Versie Omschrijving > +++-==-==- > ii php5-imagick

Re: [Bug 203023] Re: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20060613/imagick.so' - libWand.so.9

2009-04-21 Thread Simon Iremonger
> Looks like the latest updates to the php5 packages broke it again. The > symlink solution doesn't work and I have the latest version of the > package installed. What release / architechure are you using? (cat /etc/lsb-release);(uname -a) What version of php5-imagick has just got installed?

[Bug 230544] Re: Computer lockup and screen full of garbage [i82810E DC-133]

2008-11-19 Thread Simon Iremonger
I'm getting a similar error but different problem ;-). All worked fine on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (actually I think I got warnings in the dmesg, but it all still *worked*). This machine has:- 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) (rev 04) Under Ubu

Re: [Bug 57091] Re: proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies=1 should be seriously considered to permit SYN flood defense...

2008-10-23 Thread Simon Iremonger
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, KimOlsen wrote: >> "...option causes the system to violate the TCP standard..." > I do not think this is the case. If you check RFC4732 they list this as > a possible way to help against DoS attacks. > I also believe that window scaling is not affected, but large windows > are

[Bug 57091] Re: proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies=1 should be seriously considered to permit SYN flood defense...

2008-09-14 Thread Simon Iremonger
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Kees Cook wrote: > Enabling syncookies disables TCP window scaling[1], I think this is incorrect as-stated But this should be confirmed/proved/disproved. As far as I have found out elsewhere, the syn-cookies support in Linux is adaptive, and does NOT come into play u