[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
I did not manage to compile the kernel the Ubuntu way https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel Is this doc still relevant for Linux 5.4 and 20.04 / Focal? I included the patch I ported to the latest version of ubuntu-focal git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-focal.git ** Patc

[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
I managed to build, install and boot the Linux Kernel 5.4 patched with the above patch. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1868551 Title: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_ac

[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment removed: "WifiSyslog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1868551/+attachment/5340470/+files/WifiSyslog.txt ** Attachment removed: "RfKill.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1868551/+attachment/5340468/+files/RfKill.txt ** Attachme

[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-28 Thread Guy Baconniere
Q: Is there an upstream commit? A: Not that I am aware of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/827 A month ago: Hi, when will this make it's way into Kernel 5.4? -- The Boy from the MAD show ;-) You can check if you had the same type crash of your Ubuntu 20.04 (soon LTS) zgrep -h i

[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-28 Thread Guy Baconniere
zgrep -h i915_active_acquire /var/log/kern.log* kern.log* | cut -d ' ' -f1-3,5,9- ** Attachment added: "kern.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1868551/+attachment/5342403/+files/kern.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-28 Thread Guy Baconniere
Seems to be fixed in the latest 5.5 http://kobi.wang/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.5 drm/i915: Hold reference to intel_frontbuffer as we track activity Since obj->frontbuffer is no longer protected by the struct_mutex, as we are processing the execbuf, it may be removed. Mark the intel_fro

[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-30 Thread Guy Baconniere
With the above patch, I still have the screen freeze but without Kernel oops. I will compile and my own Linux Kernel 4.15 (18.04 LTS) for Ubuntu 20.04 (soon LTS) as Intel Graphics i915 is unusable on my Dell XPS 13 connected to external screen and XFCE4 i915 :00:02.0: GPU HANG: ecode 9:1:0x

[Bug 1868551] Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

2020-03-31 Thread Guy Baconniere
I am testing with Linux Kernel 5.5.13-050513-generic from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5.13/ as older kernels (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=954817#17 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #954817 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=95481

[Bug 1868551] Re: Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire

2020-03-31 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Summary changed: - Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4 + Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 1868551] Re: Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire

2020-04-01 Thread Guy Baconniere
So far no crash, freeze of any kind with Linux 5.5.13 compared to the unstability of Ubuntu 20.04 with Linux 5.4 on Dell XPS 13 with 10th Generation Intel Core i7-10510U CPU (Comet Lake) I guess the patches are part of Linux v5.5.12 and later https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5.12/

[Bug 1868551] Re: Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire

2020-04-05 Thread Guy Baconniere
Linux Kernel 5.5.x (>5.5.12) is working fine ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => New ** Information type changed from Public to Private -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1701068] Re: motd.ubuntu.com currently shows media item (HBO's Silicon Valley using Ubuntu)

2020-06-29 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "motd.ubuntu.com current Advertising for Canonical Products" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389475/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-translate.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "motd-news ENABLED by default with telemetry every 12h Without Consent" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389471/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-terminal2.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "Privacy has not opt-out for motd-news hidden telemetry in User-Agent" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389470/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-privacy.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "Trying to remove motd-news via base-files will kill Ubuntu" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389481/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-system-failure2.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "No, don't send system info NOT RESPECTED BY MOTD-NEWS" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389468/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-optout.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "motd-news exfiltrate system information via User-Agent and IP Address every 12 hours Without Consent" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389482/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-motd-news.png -- You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "Legal Notice DOES NOT COVER "motd-news" sending IP address, Uptime, Idle time every 12h motd-news.service started during installation Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 Without Consent" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389469/+files/ubuntu

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "Sample motd.ubuntu.com Ads from 2020" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389477/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-waybackmachine2.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "motd.ubuntu.com is up since 2017" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389476/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-waybackmachine.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "Sample motd.ubuntu.com Ads from 2017" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389478/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-waybackmachine3.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "motd-news is unremovable" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389480/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-system-failure1.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. ht

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "Sample motd.ubuntu.com Ads from 2019" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389479/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-waybackmachine4.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "motd.ubuntu.com hosted in the Amazon EC2 cloud in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389474/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-terminal4.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
No updates from Canonical's legal departement "A picture is worth a thousand words" ** Attachment added: "motd-news.service started during installation Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 Without Consent" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389467/+files/ubuntu

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Attachment added: "motd-news force to run via motd-news.service and motd-news.timer" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424/+attachment/5389472/+files/ubuntu-desktop-2004-terminal3.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Tags added: bionic cosmic disco -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867424 Title: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background To manage n

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867424

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
Well known... https://twitter.com/search?q=ubuntu%20motd-news&src=typed_query&f=live -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867424 Title: motd-news transmitting private hardware data withou

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-05 Thread Guy Baconniere
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-

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-05 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-05 Thread Guy Baconniere
The original request for motd-news came from Dustin Kirkland on 2016-10-30 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1637800 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867424 Titl

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-05 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-05 Thread Guy Baconniere
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.

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-07 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1637800] Re: add a motd script for news

2020-06-08 Thread Guy Baconniere
motd-news vs privacy / security / telemetry https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637800 Title: add a motd script for news

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-08 Thread Guy Baconniere
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!

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-10 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-11 Thread Guy Baconniere
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557 ** Bug watch added: github.com/curl/curl/issues #5557 https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867424 Title

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
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 (

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
I will first contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of Canonical Group Limited dataprotect...@canonical.com https://ubuntu.com/legal/data-privacy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-06-20 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1868551] Re: Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire

2020-04-15 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1868551] Re: Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire

2020-04-21 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1868551] Re: Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire

2020-05-18 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-13 Thread Guy Baconniere
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/your-personal-information-concerns/ To: ICO Dear Information Commissioner’s Office, I confirm that I want to proceed with the creation of the case about Canonical's motd-news as Canonical don't want to remediate the privacy issue of sending by default hardwar

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-13 Thread Guy Baconniere
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

[Bug 1867424] Re: motd-news transmitting private hardware data without consent or knowledge in background

2020-07-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
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,

[Bug 1868551] Re: Intel GPU Hangs : random screen freezing w/ Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.4) i915_active_acquire

2020-05-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
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 follow comments on https

[Bug 1721987] Re: No sound from right audio channel

2019-02-25 Thread Guy Baconniere
This is my backport of Tomas Espeleta's patch to Linux 4.15.18 (linux- source-4.15.0 / 4.15.0-45.48 available on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS) ** Patch added: "huawei-matebook-x-right-speaker-work-4.15.0.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1721987/+attachment/5241510/+files/huawe

[Bug 1411030] Re: backport support for unix domain sockets

2016-05-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_proxy_fcgi.html 14.04 LTS has Apache 2.4.7 so you cannot use this : # Requires Apache 2.4.9 or later SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost/" # Requires Apache 2.4.10 and later SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.

[Bug 1527062] Re: XFS Deadlock on 4.2+

2016-07-07 Thread Guy Baconniere
FYI I still have the issue on 3.13.0-91-generic (and 3.13.0-88-generic) on a busy NFS server using XFS. I have this issue since 2015... INFO: task kworker/1:2:31748 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Not tainted 3.13.0-91-generic #138-Ubuntu "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs

[Bug 1557612] [NEW] evolution: e-data-server Error opening directory '/usr/lib/evolution-data-server/credential-modules'

2016-03-15 Thread Guy Baconniere
Public bug reported: After updating evolution to 3.18.5.1-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 16.04, it stopped working: $ evolution (evolution:4688): e-data-server-WARNING **: e_module_load_all_in_directory: Error opening directory '/usr/lib/evolution-data-server/credential-modules': No such file or director

[Bug 1585614] Re: libc on 2016-05-25 causes Apache not to restart, libm.so.6: symbol __strtold_nan, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2016-05-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
Same issue This morning, a security update for libc has been automatically deployed on all our servers running 14.04 LTS. unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2016-05-26_06:36:05.829399.log:Unpacking libc6-dev:amd64 unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2016-05-26_06:36:05.829399.log:Unpacking libc-dev-bin unattended-u

[Bug 1486914] [NEW] shoreall won't start, wrong runlevels

2015-08-20 Thread Guy Baconniere
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 15.04 Steps to reproduce: apt-get install shorewall vi /etc/default/shorewall replace startup=0 with startup=1 cp -va /usr/share/doc/shorewall/examples/one-interface/{interfaces,policy,rules,zones} /etc/shorewall/ shorewall check shorewall safe-restart

[Bug 1486914] Re: shoreall won't start, wrong runlevels

2015-08-20 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Description changed: - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 15.04 Steps to reproduce: apt-get install shorewall - vi /etc/default/shorewall + vi /etc/default/shorewall replace startup=0 with startup=1 cp -va /usr/share/doc/shorewall/examples/one-interface/{interfaces,policy,rules,zones

[Bug 1463023] Re: systemd Timed out waiting for device swap and file system check

2015-06-08 Thread Guy Baconniere
Please note that my swap is NOT encrypted so it's not related to bug 1440098 or 953875 ** Package changed: cryptsetup (Ubuntu) => systemd (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1463023

[Bug 1463023] [NEW] systemd Timed out waiting for device swap and file system check

2015-06-08 Thread Guy Baconniere
Public bug reported: My Ubuntu 15.04 did not start --or took so long that I switched back to upstart! ISSUE: (systemd during the boot) Timed out waitingfor device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-... (swap) Dependency failed for /dev/disk/by-uuid/... (swap) Dependency failed for Swap. Timed out waiting for

[Bug 1463023] Re: systemd Timed out waiting for device swap and file system check

2015-06-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
> Please attach /etc/fstab from your system, and show the output of 'swapon' > when booted with upstart. @vorlon content of fstab see "Bug Description" $ sudo swapon NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/sda6 partition 7.9G 11.5M -1 Ok, I will try to go back to systemd for science ;-) $ su

[Bug 1463023] Re: systemd Timed out waiting for device swap and file system check

2015-06-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
@pitti I am unable to reproduce it with 3.19.0-20 nor 3.19.0-18. So I installed back systemd-sysv and I will do the debug stuff next time I have the issue. I guess the issue was related to a strange state of swap or the disk and after booting once with upstart something fixed it. fsck?? -- You

[Bug 1463023] Re: systemd Timed out waiting for device swap and file system check

2015-06-12 Thread Guy Baconniere
It could be related that ext4 was in a bad state and systemd was not able to use it then upstart executed fsck to fix it and now I can again use systemd. # /var/log/syslog.4.gz $ zgrep -h "fsck" /var/log/*.gz Jun 8 08:43:06 mbp kernel: [1788385.038996] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly un

[Bug 1267059] Re: "Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies" does not work

2015-05-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
I agree with @Jamiejellicoe this ticket should be rated as "Security issue" (250) but we are close that (236)... Having /boot full can lead to kernel, inird image or grub.conf corruption and on top of that it's blocking new security updates to be applied. When /boot is full you cannot even purge

[Bug 1253155] Re: Failure to validate module signature at boot time

2015-05-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
Same issue $ lsb_release -r Release:14.04 $ uname -r 3.13.0-52-generic May 10 00:40:40 kernel: [...] Request for unknown module key 'Magrathea: Glacier signing key: 1981bc916ffc00599231ec5630e666e0256fd6f1' err -11 May 10 00:40:40 kernel: [...] ipt_REJECT: module verification failed: sig

[Bug 1227912] Re: instance fails to boot with qemu guest agent set in image metadata

2015-05-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
I had the same issue when AppArmor is active (default) and when I try to enable qemu guest agent inside your guest : virsh start test error: Failed to start domain test error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=charchannel0,path=/va

[Bug 1227912] Re: instance fails to boot with qemu guest agent set in image metadata

2015-05-26 Thread Guy Baconniere
Is it possible to apply this patch to libvirt-bin package and allow to write to /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/ ? For me it makes sense because disabling AppArmor for OpenStack is not a good idea so you will be exposed to security issues like Venom https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/VENO

[Bug 1480923] [NEW] lvm thin corruption after lvresize

2015-08-03 Thread Guy Baconniere
Public bug reported: lvm2 version 2.02.98-6ubuntu2 After doing a lvextend of a LVM Thin Pool, I had a corruption all sub LVM Thin Volumes and lost all of them. Then tried to dump/repair the tmeta and end up with empty thin volumes (no more filesystem signature on them). To sum up The thin_pool

[Bug 1480923] Re: lvm thin corruption after lvresize

2015-08-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Package changed: update-manager (Ubuntu) => lvm2 (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1480923 Title: lvm thin corruption after lvresize To manage notifications about this bug g

[Bug 1480923] Re: lvm thin corruption after lvresize

2015-08-04 Thread Guy Baconniere
** Description changed: lvm2 version 2.02.98-6ubuntu2 - After doing a lvextend of a LVM Thin Pool, I had a corruption all sub - LVM Thin Volumes and lost all of them. Then tried to dump/repair the + After doing a lvresize of a LVM Thin Pool, I had a corruption all sub + LVM Thin Volumes and

[Bug 1089195] Re: linux-headers will eat your inodes on LTS.

2015-07-28 Thread Guy Baconniere
My workaround: dpkg --get-selections | grep 'linux-' dpkg --get-selections | awk '/linux-(headers|image)-[0-9]\./ { print $1 }' | grep -v "$(uname -r | sed -e 's/-generic//')" | sort -r -V -t- -k3 | tail -n+4 | xargs -r apt-get -qq -y purge apt-get -qq -y install linux-{headers,image}-$(uname -r)

[Bug 1492146] Re: igb Detected Tx Unit Hang

2015-09-06 Thread Guy Baconniere
This bug should be a top priority because people will suffer from it as soon as they reboot their 14.04 LTS with an Intel Gigabit NIC and the "current" Utopic kernel (3.16.0-48-generic). I had the same problem with HP ProLiant DL380e Gen8 which an Intel I350 Gigabit NIC (Hewlett-Packard Compan

[Bug 1488024] Re: [Regression] From 3.16.0-45 to -47: Intel IGB Tx Unit Hang network adapter reset problem prevents stable network connection

2015-09-06 Thread Guy Baconniere
Same bug as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts- utopic/+bug/1492146 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1488024 Title: [Regression] From 3.16.0-45 to -47: Intel IGB Tx Uni

[Bug 1492146] Re: igb Detected Tx Unit Hang

2015-09-06 Thread Guy Baconniere
Same bug as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts- utopic/+bug/1488024 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1492146 Title: igb Detected Tx Unit Hang To manage notifications a

[Bug 1492146] Re: igb Detected Tx Unit Hang

2015-09-06 Thread Guy Baconniere
Maybe it's another kernel regression with Intel NIC and TSO so you can try this : # tso => tcp-segmentation-offload # gso => generic-segmentation-offload # gro => generic-receive-offload # sg => scatter-gather # ufo => udp-fragmentation-offload (Cannot change) # lro => large-receive-offload (Can

[Bug 1492146] Re: igb Detected Tx Unit Hang

2015-09-06 Thread Guy Baconniere
If directly related to igb module maybe this LP: #1465653 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2015-June/058671.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2015-June/058586.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1465653 if not directly related to igb modules mayb

[Bug 1492146] Re: igb Detected Tx Unit Hang

2015-09-08 Thread Guy Baconniere
@boot0user I agree with you. The best workaround for now is to update kernel to Vivid! # Physical Server (with EFI): sudo apt-get -y purge linux-{headers,image}-3.16.0-48-generic sudo apt-get -y install linux-signed-generic-lts-vivid sudo reboot uname -r # 3.19.0-26-generic sudo apt-get -y purge

[Bug 1493888] Re: FGLRX incompatible with kernel 4.2

2015-09-13 Thread Guy Baconniere
Same problem on iMac15,1 with Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and 4.2.0-7-generic (wily / 15.10) Two partial workarounds: - downgrade to 4.1.0-3-generic and install fglrx-updates but bluetooth will not work --broken with this kernel* http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg64098.html - u

[Bug 1495442] [NEW] XFS: kernel hangs multiple times in xlog_cil_force_lsn

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with Kernel 3.19.0-26-generic One of our servers running rsnapshot and nfs-kernel-server on XFS partitions crashed or hanged two sundays in a raw. Kernel 3.19.0-26-generic hangs multiple times (same time) in xlog_cil_force_lsn (XFS). I assume this bug is

[Bug 1495442] Lsusb.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lsusb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463952/+files/Lsusb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442 Title: XFS:

[Bug 1495442] UdevDb.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevDb.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463956/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442 Title: XF

[Bug 1495442] ProcModules.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcModules.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463955/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442

[Bug 1495442] WifiSyslog.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "WifiSyslog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463958/+files/WifiSyslog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442 Ti

[Bug 1495442] UdevLog.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "UdevLog.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463957/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442 Title:

[Bug 1495442] ProcInterrupts.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcInterrupts.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463954/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149

[Bug 1495442] Lspci.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "Lspci.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463951/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442 Title: XFS:

[Bug 1495442] CurrentDmesg.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463950/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442

[Bug 1495442] Re: XFS: kernel hangs multiple times in xlog_cil_force_lsn

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected staging trusty ** Description changed: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with Kernel 3.19.0-26-generic One of our servers running rsnapshot and nfs-kernel-server on XFS partitions crashed or hanged two sundays in a raw. Kernel 3.19.0-26-generic h

[Bug 1495442] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2015-09-14 Thread Guy Baconniere
apport information ** Attachment added: "ProcCpuinfo.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442/+attachment/4463953/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442

[Bug 1495442] Re: XFS: kernel hangs multiple times in xlog_cil_force_lsn

2015-09-22 Thread Guy Baconniere
The bug doesn't seem to impact 3.13.0-63-generic. (the server is in production we don't really want to test 4.2 unstable) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495442 Title: XFS: kernel ha

[Bug 1413540] Re: Trusty soft lockup issues with nested KVM

2015-04-22 Thread Guy Baconniere
I still have the same issue with kernel 3.16.0-36-generic or 3.13.0-51-generic (proposed-updates) # KVM HOST (3.16.0-36-generic) sudo apt-get install linux-signed-generic-lts-utopic/trusty-proposed # KVM GUEST (3.16.0-36-generic) sudo apt-get install linux-virtual-lts-utopic/trusty-proposed apt-

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