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    Re: Mitigating Spectre v2 issues

    Public cloud images have been available for a while now - that page is just out of date.
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    Re: Mitigating Spectre v2 issues

    A quick google for "retbleed ubuntu" would have taken you to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/Retbleed as the first hit - as can be seen the mitigations for the various retbleed...
  3. Re: Is Gauge2 in the snap store malware?

    I am not sure if this is malware but it definitely appears to violate the snap store ToS - https://ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/snap-store-terms - in particular:



    As such I have just...
  4. [SOLVED] Re: Two keys for newly installed full disk encryption?

    The second key you asked about in the original post is the randomly generated recovery key - this was originally introduced in 21.04 - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/hirsute-hippo-release-notes/19221...
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    Re: Ubuntu and Dirty Pipe

    Updates to fix this in the affected kernels (Ubuntu 21.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running the HWE stack) have been published - https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5317-1
  6. [ubuntu] Re: Security patches for CVE-2021-22946 and CVE-2021-22947 broke curl

    FYI - this was fixed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/1944120 - next time please file a LP bug directly as Ubuntu developers do not generally monitor the forums for random...
  7. Re: Security Failure [exim] and negligence

    This is incorrect (assuming you are talking about the Exim vulnerabilities announced here and fixed in regular Ubuntu releases via USN-4934-1).

    The Ubuntu Security team got 7 days notice ahead of...
  8. Re: How to restrict Zoom access to files?

    You have disconnected the desktop interface - this is used for integration with the desktop theme etc - so it is no surprise that Zoom then cannot use the correct fonts etc.

    Instead you need to...
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    Re: Cve-2019-14899

    As noted in the Ubuntu CVE tracker https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-14899.html there is no official upstream fix for this yet - ideally this would be a fix at the...
  10. [ubuntu] Re: all CVE status/affected in one list?

    The HTML CVE tracker is generated by, and from, the data contained in the Ubuntu CVE Tracker git repo at...
  11. [ubuntu] Re: Latest kernel updates (Feb 23) break 14.04 in VMWare

    Filed a bug - feel free to add any information there so this can get some attention from the Ubuntu devs.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1550090
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 12.10 MacBook Pro 5.1

    Sorry @Andrewski I'm all out of ideas - I run Fedora now and the last version of Ubuntu I had on my MBP5,1 was 12.04 - perhaps try that instead using the non -mac iso and it should work with...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 12.10 MacBook Pro 5.1

    See this bug report, in particular comment 125 where Colin Watson discusses explicitly disabling EFI for Intel Macs by default. Basically *some* models have errors when doing this, so it was disabled...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu problems on Macbook

    Try booting up and holding down option / alt with the livecd and you should be able to select to boot from it.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 12.10 MacBook Pro 5.1

    Make sure you're not using the +mac iso - as you said this doesn't have the EFI stuff on it - instead you want something like this -...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu 12.10 MacBook Pro 5.1

    @Andrewiski - you need to boot in EFI mode, at the moment you are booting in BIOS mode where the 9400M is automatically shutdown by the Apple BIOS. The following should give some more info:
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    [ubuntu] Re: ubuntu on new retina macbook : any experience ?

    Looks like your last couple fixes for apple-gmux should be in the next 3.6-rc and hence in 3.6 final when it is eventually released - mjg just sent a pull request to Linus -...
  18. [ubuntu] Re: latest MBP 9,1 (non-Retina) won't boot 12.04 CD or USB

    Try booting the livecd / usb with the kernel boot parameter:


    nouveau.noaccel=1

    Or if that doesn't work try:


    nomodeset
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't switch back to Mac OS X

    Try holding down alt (option) while it is initially booting and it may give you the option to choose MacOS
  20. [ubuntu] Testers needed for improved multitouch + clickpad support testing

    Chase Douglas has been working on improved support for clickpads, including things like click & drag with 2 fingers etc for the upcoming version of Ubuntu (Precise Pangolin 12.04) - if anyone is...
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    [ubuntu] Re: backlight support for mbp5,5 in 11.10

    Like I said, are you booting via EFI since if not then this won't help :) There is no procedure for uninstalling the old one - this replaces it - but you need to reboot once you've installed it.
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    [ubuntu] Re: backlight support for mbp5,5 in 11.10

    Are you booting via EFI or BIOS emulation? If you're using EFI, the backlight is controlled via the gmux and so you'll need an updated version of apple_bl driver - see
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  23. [ubuntu] Re: MacbookPro running hazardously hot under Oneiric

    This is wrong - the SMC on MacBook's is a dedicated piece of hardware which controls the fans automatically without the intervention of the OS - so either under OSX or Ubuntu or even Windows the SMC...
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    [ubuntu] Re: MacBook 5,1 issues

    For brightness control, try adding the following to the Device section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf


    Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

    And the second issue is the nature of the...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Ubuntu 11.10 Macbook Pro 5,4/5,5

    11.10 via EFI worked fine on my MPB 5,1
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