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  1. Muon refusing to install updates

    Muon used to prompt for authorisation but no longer does so and it always fails with an error

    Saying "This operation cannot continue since proper authorisation was not provided"

    No LSB modules...
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    Re: error-package-download-failed

    Yes, that's what I did and it worked - thank you.

    David
  3. Problem with sendmail configuration

    I tried to change my sendmail configuration to use a different outbound smtp server and port.

    I modified the last few lines of /etc/sendmail.mc to read:



    nl # Masquerading options...
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    Re: error-package-download-failed

    You actually wrote:

    sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists/ /var/lib/apt/lists/.bk
  5. Re: Changing email configuration for sending

    Except that phind.com didn't tell me how to do that ...
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    Re: error-package-download-failed

    I think you meant:
    sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists/ /var/lib/apt/lists.bk

    That worked OK - the proposed command couldn't possibly work I think...

    upgrade now running - so far so good :-)
  7. Re: Changing email configuration for sending

    That doesn't help a fat lot for configuring sendmail for cron output
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    Re: error-package-download-failed

    Here you go:


    amonra@charon:~$ inxi -r
    Repos:
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    1: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal main restricted
    2: deb-src...
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    error-package-download-failed

    Running a normal upgrade, I am getting:



    Failed to download package files
    Check your Internet connection.
    Eror Code: error-package-download-failed
    Failed to download package files
    Check...
  10. Changing email configuration for sending

    Running Ubuntu Linux 20.04.6.

    I recently changed my email provider.

    My new email settings require connection via a different smtp server at port 465 and using SSL/TLS and also require...
  11. rsync sent bytes more than expected?

    Using rsync to copy from ext4 with 5.4TB of data (according to df) to btrfs (empty).


    root@charon:/home/amonra# rsync -ah -H -A -X --info=progress2 --stats /media/amonra/Seagate_16TB/. /shared/....
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to mount btrfs file system

    I booted a live ArchLinux distro (2022-06-01) (**) and issued: mount -t btrfs -o ro,rescue=all /dev/sdc1 /mnt

    And got this in the system log:

    Jun 19 13:04:32 archiso kernel: BTRFS...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to mount btrfs file system

    I hadn't tried that - is there a particular reason you suggested it?

    D.
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to mount btrfs file system

    Sad to say that mount -t btrfs -o ro,usebackuproot /dev/sdb2 /mnt

    Gave me this in the log:


    Jun 18 20:36:01 charon kernel: BTRFS info (device sdb1): flagging fs with big metadata feature
    Jun...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to mount btrfs file system

    btrfs rescue zero-log appeared to work, but attempt to mount afterwards:


    Jun 18 18:58:38 charon kernel: BTRFS info (device sdb1): flagging fs with big metadata feature
    Jun 18 18:58:38 charon...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to mount btrfs file system

    I did a btrfs check and got:


    root@charon:/home/amonra# btrfs check /dev/sdb1
    Opening filesystem to check...
    parent transid verify failed on 12554992156672 wanted 130582 found 127355
    parent...
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    [lubuntu] Failed to mount btrfs file system

    When I booted up my linux system after a power fail one of my logical drives (all 28TB of it):


    Jun 18 15:40:27 charon kernel: BTRFS error (device sdb1): parent transid verify failed on...
  18. [SOLVED] Re: New Windows XP needs to access Samba share

    I got it working - needed to add Unix user and then issue smbpasswd -a -n lecroyuser

    Thank you
  19. [SOLVED] Re: New Windows XP needs to access Samba share

    I thought Windows XP SP3 (which this is) could do NTLMV2?

    <https://kb.bloombase.com/kb/?View=entry&EntryID=76>


    Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
    WARNING: The "lanman auth"...
  20. [SOLVED] New Windows XP needs to access Samba share

    I have a Samba share on my Ubuntu server called /Shared. I have no problem accessing it from my Windows 10 systems.

    I've just added a new XP system to the network and I need to add the user(s) on...
  21. Re: Errors updating with dmks driver

    Let us be clear here, the raid driver I downloaded and installed from the Microsemi (Adaptec) website (after advice from Adaptec Tech Support) is the latest version and fixes a problem with drive...
  22. Re: Errors updating with dmks driver

    Meh! I just have an Adaptec Raid card ASR-8885 (which is supported by LUbuntu out of the box), but so resolve a problem with the driver that comes with the kernel I installed the latest driver from...
  23. Errors updating with dmks driver

    I just updated my system and got:


    /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms:
    * dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 5.4.0-71-generic

    Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. ...
  24. Looks like apt-btrfs-snapshot has a problem with noatime

    /etc/cron.weekly/apt-btrfs-snapshot:
    Error: fstab option 'noatime' incompatible with optionrun-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-btrfs-snapshot exited with return code 1

    I'm sure this could (and...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Applying a patch?

    Thank you very much for the help! I've now been able to test the patch and it's on its way to the stable tree...
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