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This is a strange one: On an Ubuntu Server maverick 64-bit with postfix+ dovecot using normal passwd users, which has been working fine for ages, the most recent useradd isn't able to authenticate...

Ran out of time to try reconnection ideas, killed the processes. Just posting to follow up for the archives: aptitude will pick up the config step where it left off, it worked fine.

I lost my ssh connection to Ubuntu 10.10 server during the configuration update stage of an aptitude full-upgrade for a few month's worth of updates.

From the following ps ax list, can anyone tell...

I am having intermittent network connection drops with a Windows 2003 guest on an Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 host. Using the virtio nic drivers (Aug-2010) helped, but I still received one incident report...

On Ubuntu 10.10 meerkat server amd46, I'm having a problem with the git dependency liberror-perl_0.17-1 hanging at with the following step:

Preparing to replace liberror-perl 0.17-1 (using...

I need to install the following dependencies for synspam on Ubuntu 9.10 karmic server:


sudo aptitude install nfqueue-bindings-perl libsys-syslog-perl libappconfig-perl libnetpacket-perl...

I need to run a copy and subsequently sync all user homedirs from Ubuntu 9.04 to Windows 2003.

I planned to use WinSCP for the initial copy, then unison to sync nightly.

Getting sudo working...

I am about to upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.

For one user's profile I would like to reset the GNOME applets to the default/stock configuration and layout.

This profile had 8.10's user switch...

I would like to update an ubuntu server from the current 9.04-i386 jaunty to 9.10-amd64 karmic when it is released.

Can this be done with update-manager -d and some prior apt configuration?
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I'd like to give qpsmptd a try on my ubuntu 9.04 jaunty mailserver: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/qpsmtpd

Does anyone know why the packaged version 0.40 - June 11, 2007 is so far behind the...

OK, I have a workaround:

$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/davical
#
# Virtual Host def for Debian packaged DAViCal
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.99 >
DocumentRoot /usr/share/davical/htdocs
...

I opted for fcgid, and have it configured except for the equivalent to php_value from my virtual host config:

# Virtual Host def for Debian packaged DAViCal
<VirtualHost 192.168.10.99 >
...

I am obliged to migrate from mod-php to one of the fastcgi implementations. in order to use mod-wsgi with the apache-worker version, etc.

I have been running DaviCal with mod-php in a virtualhost...

Yesterday I update my server's postgresql to postgresql-8.3.6-0ubuntu8.10. The pg_dump plaintext schema ordering changed, so I have unwanted diff artifacts between my Gentoo development machine.
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Update, I have added 'noauto' to the /etc/fstab line for the ntfs-3g mount.

On reboot(s), it did not mount the partition, but the relatively slow check in the middle of the progress remains.

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On a dual-boot laptop (Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows XP), the Ubuntu boot time is very slow, about 2 minutes. The bootcharts attached seem to indicate that a check of the NTFS filesystem is the cause of...

Good find. The bugfix looks like a one-line fix. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18330

Since it's reproducible, I hope someone with commit access gets inspired to pull the upstream...

No, unfortunately. It has happened on a few occasions since the original post. I can only guess from the timing of these incdidents that it is related to users running a bash script with an rsync -e...

What is the mechanism for permanently renaming an interface in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid?

I had a dodgy 8139too (module) based NIC installed at startup. I switched that out for a unit that (apparently)...

The latest alsa-utils update seems to fix it:

/etc/init.d$ diff -u alsa-utils.dpkg-old alsa-utils
--- alsa-utils.dpkg-old 2008-12-02 18:01:48.000000000 -0500
+++ alsa-utils 2008-11-26...

I have one Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid desktop which recently started locking up at logout. It is 100% repeatable, and does not happen with other identically configured desktops (of different hardware).
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I have found that with a proper shebang line, the scripts work fine.

#!/bin/bash
rsync ...
What has changed in Ubuntu 8.10 to change the behavior of scripts without the shebang?

Thanks.

I create convenience scripts for my users with one or more commands. The scripts are executable for UGO as appropriate, and usually carry a .sh file extension. I have not usually used shebang first...

Recently a client bash script with a single rsync via ssh command set the server's console-kit-daemon into a very high CPU utilization:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ ...

On Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, I can no longer access the scanner as a normal user, but can with sudo:

My user is in the scanner group:

$ grep scan /etc/group
scanner:x:105:hplip,myuser,(...)


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