On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 04:07:54PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> abi-compliance-checker and abigail. None of those experiments have ended up
> sticking, though, for reasons which I'm not fully aware of. Alan Griffiths
> and Michał Sawicz did most of that investigation; I'll see if
On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 02:18:52AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Using xz -9 would give very good compression, but it takes very long
> (especially on slow development boards) and a lot of memory (good luck
> on Raspberry Pis with small memory like Pi Zeros).
Please also test decompression times
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:55:06AM +0200, Adrien Nader wrote:
> There is a little-know but very interesting property of LZMA: its
> decompression speed does not depend on the uncompressed size but only on
> the compressed size. What this means is that if you compress a 100MB
> down to 20MB, it will
On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 06:45:59PM -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote:
> With that in mind, we, the Server team, identified the need to decouple the
> application (what users really use) and the library (what is used by rdeps)
> in a way that, on the one hand, we can keep following upstream projects
> wi
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 03:46:18PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> Jammy:
> main 253K
> universe 75K
> Bionic (as an example of a mature release with fewer SRUs in flight):
> main 131K
> universe 9.7K
"omg the size" was my first reaction when I read the proposal, but these
sizes are far more reasonabl
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 02:35:58PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> In a discussion with JACK developer Paul Davis, he says:
>
> "at this point in time, i personally can see absolutely no reason
> why a regular user should not have access to RT scheduling or
> memlock if the kernel and PAM (or eq
Hi,
I have pushed updated OpenSSL packages for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS,
12.10, 13.04, and Saucy into the -proposed pocket. Saucy's OpenSSL has
been accepted into -release.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how
to enable and use -proposed.
The packages fix t
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:27:30PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> It's not a case of technical problems it's a case of Mir being
> different for no paticular advantage. It's a political problem of
I for one am looking forward to finally having a fix for
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49579
Tim
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:00:29PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:41:29AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > Do you have any more details, or opened bugs about the issues?
>
> An X one for example
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=xrr-ubuntu
Hrm, I just skimmed i
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 03:21:33AM +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> I've been happily using an sbuild setup (with apt-cacher-ng and building
> on shm - blazing fast!) based on [1] and [2], but the amount of
> information you're not generally interested in when you want to just try
> a build locally on
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 07:17:24PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > > The issue is that it's only in the *devel* pre-release when it's not safe
> > > for humans to enable it. The GUI for enabling it needs to exist because
> > > there are scenarios where humans should be enabling it: people using o
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:31:15PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> /ubuntu/dists/raring-security/main/source
>
> [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 106
> [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 32K
> [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 38K
>
> For end users, how much is really
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:15:41PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote:
> Although I am probably hammering a rather cold iron, I still fail to
> understand why ntp is not installed by default. I would expect precise
> timekeeping to be something important on a server (instead of allowing
> the time to drift
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:33:08AM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> what scott said is absolutely right, XP users should just use 13.10 and
> upgrade to 14.04 once it is out.
Microsoft releases security updates on a monthly schedule; in the month
or so between XP's end-of-life and 14.04 LTS's start
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> i think it taking 30sec longer before it starts printing because the
Lets hope it isn't 30 actual seconds; I'm accustomed to hearing the
printer spool up near immediately. Thirty seconds is long enough that I'd
suspect something is
Hi Doko,
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:28:14PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> To prepare for the u-series, a second test rebuild using GCC 4.9 as the
> default
> is run in parallel in
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20140307-4.9/
> The compiler used for this test rebuild can be
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:24:20AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> apps are expected to keep running during upgrades, then fix the
> upgrade process so that apps can't run during the upgrade. Don't just
> filter out those crashes as if they aren't happening.
For years, Mozilla and then Firefox
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:38:35AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > At some point Firefox added a handy dialog box to alert running
> > instances that it has been upgraded and should be restarted to run
> > safely.
> Which Ubuntu then muddled by illustrating it with a small version of
> the
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:31:26AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> I wonder what's the current status on the Libav10 transition:
>
> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/html/libav10.html
>
> It appears to be stuck for some reason. Can we please push it through
> and manage th
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> I'd like to seed ntp in both server and cloud-image in Vivid. Servers
> should maintain the correct time by default. Please make any objections
> now.
>
> Right now, ntpdate is seeded in minimal. It makes little sense to have
> both nt
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 03:22:19PM +, Robie Basak wrote:
> If -g is specified to ntpd, then it will allow any variance the first
> time it sets the time. After that, and always if -g was not specified,
> it will exit (thus stop syncing time) if the variance is greater than
> 1000 seconds. I don
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 05:36:25PM -0700, Dann Frazier wrote:
> We've measured significant performance improvements for several
> benchmarks by using 64K pages (SPECint, sysbench mysql, and kernel
> compiling)[*]. I'd therefore like to discuss whether or not we should
> switch to 64K pages in vivid
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 07:27:39AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Proposal
>
> I propose to retire [mac], i. e. drop
> /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules and enable
> [ifnames] by default on all platforms (client, server, touch, snappy),
> and stop installing biosdevname on s
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 04:01:44PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> 20_linux_xen:
> xen_list=`for i in /boot/xen*; do
> +if echo "$i" | grep -q '\.efi$'; then continue; fi
> if grub_file_is_not_garbage "$i" && file_is_not_sym "$i" ; then echo
> -n
> "$i " ; fi
>done`
Could t
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:22:27PM +0100, Stef Bon wrote:
> I will look for this application you've named but it will be hard as you
> describe. Snapshots/versions are available on a file level basis, not on a
> whole filesystem though.
If you're looking for filesystem snapshots you may wish to in
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:56:38AM -0200, Rafael David Tinoco wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mstflint/+bug/1470167
>
> There is a direct request from Mellanox for Ubuntu to sync "mstflint"
> package with Debian.
>
> While that is okay for Xenial, after bisecting mstflint code
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:26:13PM +0200, Ben Howard wrote:
> On the Ubuntu Cloud Images, we have a request to make /tmp a tmpfs. The
> rationale, from the bug:
I'm afraid if you make this change you'll get requests to change it back:
- on m1.tiny and similar sized systems, /tmp will be so small
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:00:16PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> In a perfect world we'd have some clever tmpfs file system which would
> use RAM as available and start overflowing onto a disk partition
> (which could be LUKS with a random key) when necessary.. But even
In fact this is what happens,
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:27:58PM +0200, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> Moreover, just 'sudo apt-get install swapspace' and watch as swapfiles
> are created/deleted as needed. If your root disk is lvm-encrypted,
> then obviously such swap files are encrypted, too.
I've been severely skeptical of the s
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:27:51AM +0100, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> Sure, done! You can find a detailed statistical analysis, as well as
> the raw data for your download and treatment at:
>
> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/01/data-driven-analysis-tmp-on-tmpfs.html
This is great :) Suddenly t
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:45:24PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> resolved, which you can probably do in the order of a minute. It does
> not use source port randomization though, which would lift the average
> time to the magnitude of a month.
I'm concerned what this says about the maturity of the p
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> yesterday I landed [1] in Yakkety which changes how DNS resolution
> works -- i. e. how names like "www.ubuntu.com" get translated to an IP
> address like 1.2.3.4.
> Now DNS resolution goes via a new "libnss-resolve" NSS module which
>
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 02:54:13PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Let me resurrect this thread. In the context of what we should be
> doing in 18.04 and what to do between now and then.
Thanks for raising this again; it'd be nice to have a plan in place before
we wind up in a difficult situat
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 05:37:48PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> Are you saying that the additional download is a problem? If so, how
> exactly, and if not, then I don't follow how this mechanism makes a
> difference to users.
A wget or curl in a postinst command that fails (mediocre network
connect
On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 06:26:07PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> = Questions =
>
> Is it sensible to change the semantics of the % specification in partman-auto?
> Or should e.g. a brand new factor be introduced?
> Is the introduction of pre-seedable swaplimit sensible?
> Is 2GB a good gener
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 01:19:12AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> as previously (sort of) announced I want to turn off SHA1 on January 1st
> by default in apt (in the 1.2 and 1.3 series xenial/yakkety ship). We
> already turned this off for fields inside the (meta) index files,
> this step now
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 01:48:03AM -0800, Mike Pontillo wrote:
> Now, this may have a lot to do with the fact that I'm using the bridge; the
> behavior I'm describing may be very different for a "pure physical"
> interface. But with this setup, I see 5-minute timeouts at boot when I:
I'm sorry to
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:42:46PM -0300, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> So it looks like that we need to work with an extra interface (dummy0 with
> IPv6) and find a way to let Avahi broadcast the interface's own host name or
Would you mind changing the name to something that would more clearly
reflect
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:15:13AM -0500, Rohan Kadekodi wrote:
> When I tried to run the perf performance analysis tool (which is a part of
> the kernel) on kernel v4.9.x or v4.10.x, I realized that the linux-tools
> package of the respective kernel versions on which it depends are not yet
> inclu
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:05:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I do believe that the real question before us is that of dropping the
> architectures from the archive.
>
> However, please note that as of 18.04, i386 and armhf are still supported
> architectures by Canonical for Ubuntu Core. Whi
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 04:32:29PM +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Having access to the source code for packages would be helpful because
> sometimes, when chasing down a bug, access to source code is desirable.
If you add "deb-src" lines to your apt sources, you can download the
source for a packag
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:33:17PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> automatically sets DPKG_FRONTEND_LOCKED when invoking dpkg
> if the system lock is acquired (after the fork, directly
> before the execvp). If you run dpkg yourself, like for calling
> dpkg --configure -a you will probably have
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:35:21PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Our goal is to get those changes into xenial before 18.04.1 so that
> there are less upgrade failures. (Upgrade failures because the "await"
Oh nice, would this address bugs such as:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 05:43:13PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> pattern that so many developers seem to use. This is one that I want to
> resolve in the long term by encouraging via a lint tool first before
> turning it into a recommendation and eventually policy.
The Ubuntu security team has a she
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:41:03PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> In the Ubuntu Archive in cosmic all / vs /usr conflicts are resolved,
AppArmor profiles need to be adjusted:
https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/issues/8
Thanks
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Jann Horn has discovered that qemu's seccomp blacklist is not properly
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We'd like to fix this issue so the users who opt-in to the seccomp
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 12:41:04PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> 1. If a language-specific package, or stack of packages, is stuck in
> proposed, and nobody is volunteering to get them migrated, then we are
> more willing to delete them from the release pocket and release without
> that stack.
Than
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:47:22PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> I think mlocate only really makes sense on data storage servers with
> huge disks, or on machines with HDDs. I therefore do not think the
> overhead of building the index is warranted for most users. It might
> make sense to kee
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:46:57AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> As if lz4 kernel & xz initrd would yield the fastest boot time? That
I'm lacking some context here, but I think building the initrds is already
too slow and I'm afraid xz on initrd rebuilds would be significantly
worse than lz4
Thanks for raising this Colin, the redirection has been a source of
frustration among friends and users on IRC.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:13:30PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> buried deep in a wall of text on
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. I find it very easy to
> see how peop
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:21:10AM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> P.S. Just an opinion and entirely up to you, the alternating meeting time
> is hard to plan for everyone.
I haven't kept close track of the meetings but my impression is that most
of them end with "well, there's no quorum, sorry
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 09:31:55AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > > > It's worth noting whoopsie-upload-all is run as root. I've discovered
> > > > that changing /proc/sys/fs/protected_regular from 1 to 0 allows
> > > > whoopsie-upload-all to write to the file. I imagine that appor
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 03:54:11PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> > Xen - xen unprivileged domains
>
> as cpaelzer mentioned, Xen should probably move up to the 'best
> effort' section; this was just moved out of main in focal.
Xen's status before focal was awkward: the source
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:38:47PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> For Ubuntu, DF_EXCLUDE_FSTYPES could be set in the global profile (under
> /etc/profile.d/ perhaps?) This would make it straightforward to add
Many thanks for working on this, df output has been annoying me for quite
some time (b
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 05:14:13PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> I haven't seen other examples of config file use elsewhere in coreutils,
> which was one reason I went with an env var for this POC.
>
> I'll bring your points forward when I present to upstream, and if they
> also like the conf f
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 06:10:32PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> This next set had test failures due to intermittent network issues, or
> other 'flaky' troubles, and passed on a simple retrigger. (I'm not
Could we build a retriggerbot that smashes the retry button three times
before bothering
On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 05:47:51PM -0700, SyzScope wrote:
> This is SyzScope, a research project that aims to reveal high-risk
> primitives from a low-risk bug.
Hello, this is pretty cool stuff. Continuing on 'executing' beyond the
point when ASAN has given up has given some pretty cool results.
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:37:14AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> Maybe what needs to be provided here to avoid reimplementations is a better
> method to let services be more specific about what networks/addresses they
> care
> about. That is, if we care about not having to reimplem
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 04:35:56PM +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> no_proxy but maybe we should do this always? I also don't understand how
> this works on other architectures -- if you do (python) s=socket.socket();
> s.bind(('0.0.0.0', 0)); print(s.getsockname()[0]) will you ever get an
> an
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:22:05PM -0700, syzscope sys wrote:
> I just found out that Ubuntu is on the CVE CNA list.
> Do you think it's possible that Ubuntu could assign the CVEs for those
> issues directly instead of asking Google? Once the CVE is assigned, it
> should also not only benefit Ubunt
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> I'd love to see it working the same way it works in Debian. With
> random developers uploading (AND TAKING ON THEM THE RESPONSABILITY TO
> KEEP IT WORKING AND POSSIBLY UPDATED EVER AFTER), whilst a "team" is
> only tasked with basic
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Question: Does zstd --adapt adapt to memory available?
"memory available" is very difficult to actually determine:
- is it physical memory on the machine?
- is it physical memory reported as "free" in /proc/meminfo?
- is it phy
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 10:37:07AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
> In any case, all this formality really is exhausting and I don't care
> to pursue it, since you seem to be saying that I can't call for a DMB
I've been having this thought a lot the last few years.
A lot of the Ubuntu structures fee
On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 02:43:40AM +, Seth Arnold wrote:
> I've been having this thought a lot the last few years.
My response here should in no way be read as suggesting Robie is
personally contributing to an excess of bureaucracy in Ubuntu. To the
contrary, I've always app
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:09:27PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17,
2022 at 02:54:02PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Haven't there problems with reaching the number of votes necessary for a
> quorum in the past? I'd rather see the team reduce in size[1] so that its
> easier for applica
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:34:24PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Those issues are easy to fix but I would prefer us to focus on spending our
> effort on more user impacting problems so I'm suggesting we revert the
> change for the LTS.
>
> How do other feel like about that?
Thanks for raising
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 09:58:14AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> LP page: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pv
> Or other considerations that need made before deciding?
pv is popular in the OpenZFS communities for use with zfs send | zfs recv
-- as is mbuffer, which exists more to provide
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:37:36AM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> The following would do, but since apparmor is an allow-list for mandatory
> access
> that could end up reading weird unless there is a nice trick to
> allow-all-but ...
>
> audit deny signal (receive, send) peer=/usr/bin/pv
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 08:44:21AM +, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote:
> Am 19.01.2023 18:17 schrieb Gunnar Hjalmarsson:
> > Pls see https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-mir
>
> Nice process. It is not clear for me how do I open a bug report. The bug
> list on launchpad is closed. There is no "new bug
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