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Oh wow, this is actually by-design!
Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. Well this explains it all, thanks!

(and it's true that aptitude safe-upgrade indeed forces the install and skips the "waiting...

I have a couple of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers running on a Proxmox host. Every now and then "apt upgrade" gives me the following message saying that it skipped packages. But why is that? Why is -in...

Hero! Thanks!

Ok, my conclusion so far: for my homeserver, I'll avoid the minimal installation :).

Thanks! Decent investigation!
Do you think that it’s ONLY about saving storage space? Or is it also about a more leaner memory usage, etc.?

Yeah well, I just retried and now everything works fine. Don't know what happened earlier.
The problem occured AFTER installing ubuntu server on the VM. Right after the moment that it complains...

Hey here!
I'm running 3x Ubuntu servers on my homelab on a Proxmox box. Very happy with it.
Now I'm checking out the new 22.04 LTS release of ubuntu server and I have two questions.


First,...

In my crontab I have a "@reboot" entry which triggers a shell script which sends out the actual external IP to mail email address. This USED to work for 14.04 LTS, but not for 16.04 LTS. For some...

I'm having a hard time booting up my server after after doing a clean install. The server has the following mainboard: Asrock b85m Pro4. Please see this movie to get an idea of the problem. As you...

My situation: I have an Ubuntu server acting as my home router. It has two NICs and all the internal devices are using the server as their gateway. So far so good. On the server I have installed KVM...

Thank you for your suggestions; KVM is running on localhost and virt-manager should connect to localhost. How do I force this? What checkbox are you talking about? Also keep in mind that eventually...

When I try to run virt-manager, it first tries to connect to KVM through ip6. When this times out, it tries to connect through ip4. Until this times-out, it will try to connect to the socket and the...

If I want to upgrade the version used in Ubuntu 14.04.1, what steps do I have to take? The latest version available is nzbget 12.something. It would be great is we can upgrade this to the latest...

My server is blanking the screen (powering down) after x minutes. I have found some topics on the interwebs on how to prevent this, but unfortunately none of them work. So do you guys know a way to...

Hi, indeed, the server is not running a GUI. The .vimrc is as follows. As you can see, it's not very complex.

syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

I'm having troubles with editing my crontab. This is what happens: when I edit crontab as my own user 'crontab -e', everything works fine. The environment var "EDITOR" is read and /usr/bin/vim is...

Thanks, working great!

I'm using a Ubuntu 14.04.1 server which does some tasks, f.e. SSH, LAMP, RSS aggegration, etc. I have scripted some bash files which help me in cleaning up stuff on the server. The server is NOT...

Okay, this works. But what does [ -z ${TMUX} ] do? When is ${TMUX} set? And when is .bashrc evaluated?

I am running a headless Ubuntu server 14.04.1 server. It's great. The last couple of weeks I have discovered tmux: also great! :) Now I want to achieve the following: if I am logging on to the server...

Thanks; I'll see what I can do...

Thanks; I have changed the script by hand and it's working fine now. Why isn't 12.04.4 being patched thorough the official way??? It's LTS right?

Some additional information; I found this thread: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1146170
It looks like it's solved, but why am I still facing this error? (I'm...

How stupid :)... it was my grep command which appeared :).

Well, when I execute /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-updates-available, then I get the following:

rogier@server:~$...

Only one instance running:
user@server:~$ ps aux | grep landscape
user 22054 0.0 0.0 4384 840 pts/4 S+ 20:55 0:00 grep --color=auto landscape

Anyone an idea what this does?...