Alexander Skwar's questions

Having issues with my Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9.

When I hibernate Ubuntu 21.10 (or also Pop!_OS 21.10 - I've got multiple installations on the system), the touchpad stops working. Both with Wayland and xorg. Kernel on Ubuntu 21.10: 5.13.0-22.22. I'm using Gnome.

I tried reloading the kernel module with:

sudo rmmod psmouse; sleep 2; sudo modprobe psmouse

I also tried dis-/enabling the xinput device:

xinput disable 'SYNA8008:00 06CB:CE58 Touchpad'; sleep 2; xinput enable 'SYNA8008:00 06CB:CE58 Touchpad'

No chanes.

With xinput test 'SYNA8008:00 06CB:CE58 Touchpad' I can see, that there ARE signals received when I use the touchpad. Compared to pre-hibernate, there are A LOT less signals.

The "joystick" "mouse" always works. But I am not compatible with the knob ;)

I've got a 2018 MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar and would like to install Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic (or Kubuntu) on it.

It boots fine from the USB stick (created per Ubuntu Tutorial "Create bootable USB stick on macOS"). But in Ubuntu (or Kubuntu), neither the keyboard nor the touchpad work ;-(

I've read the post Installing Ubuntu on MacBook Pro on ask ubuntu.

A bit later, I found the Gist "0 Linux-On-MBP-Late-2016.md". According to this, Keyboard and Touchpad just don't work during installation. "Fine"…

I now managed to repartition the mac's disk and install macOS High Sierra and Kubuntu on the system. But now I'm stuck at the Grub prompt :(

Would anyone maybe have a definitive guide? ;)

For some time now, words with the letter ü aren't shown correctly anymore for me with Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.

In this picture, you can see that the cursor after typing ü is in front of(!) the ü. When I type the next character, it'll overwrite the ü. This is in Chrome.

This picture is from Firefox. As you can see, the words "dürfen" and "für" aren't shown correctly.

It all started "all of a sudden". Don't remember when and how.

What's going on there?

With Gnome Ubuntu 14.04, it was possible to specify additional search domains for the resolv.conf, when editing a network connection, like so:

But where do I find this field for the "additional search domains" in Ubuntu 16.04?

Is the only "real" way to modify /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base or /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head? Is there no GUI way to do this?

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial and Network Manager started dnsmasq for me with these options:

~/ ps awux|grep dnsmasq
nobody    2649  0.0  0.0  54488  3588 ?        S    Mai23   0:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.pid --listen-address=127.0.1.1 --cache-size=0 --proxy-dnssec --enable-dbus=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.dnsmasq --conf-dir=/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d

I'd like dnsmasq to read/use the /etc/hosts file as well, which it currently doesn't seem to, because of the option --no-hosts.

How do I change the startup options, that Network Manager uses to invoke dnsmasq?

I'm looking for a way to get a list of all the services (/etc/init.d or upstart or systemd), which are supposed to be starting (or having been started at) boot.

How do you get a list of all starting services? — I know that question, and it suggests to use service --status-all.

But that doesn't show me, which services are SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING. It calls all the init scripts with "status" argument. This is a list of all the services that could be running.

But I would like to know, if a service, that had been started at boot is still running.

Example…

I have webfs installed. But I do not want it to be running at boot. Thus I disabled it: sudo update-rc.d webfs disable. And I also have samba installed and it should be running at boot. But it is stopped (for whatever reason). sudo service --status-all doesn't help me here:

$ sudo service --status-all 2>/dev/null | grep -E 'samba$|webfs'
 [ - ]  samba
 [ - ]  webfs

Both are off but I get no clue, that one (samba) is supposed to be on.

So…

How could I get a list of all services which are starting at boot? And, as an extension, is there an easy way to get the "status" of these services (if not, I'll simply loop over this list and run "service $service status", or something like this).

Thanks, Alexander

Edit 2015-05-04: I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.

The main focus of this question is the following:

But I would like to know, if a service, that had been started at boot is still running.

Because of this, initctl list doesn't help much. It doesn't really take into consideration the services started by /etc/init.d scripts (compared to upstart scripts in /etc/init).

Also a listing of /etc/rc?.d/S* doesn't help. It would generate a list of services, which might have been started in a given runlevel. It doesn't show me, if a service, that should've been started, is still running.

Basically, I'm looking for something like svcs -x from Solaris for Ubuntu. With svcs -x, I'd have output if a service, which was started, isn't running anymore. This, I'd need for Ubuntu as well.

Reason: I'd like to have a (more or less...) generic check for our Icinga/Nagios monitoring system, which would alert me, if a service isn't running anymore, which should be running. As we've got many different servers for many different customers, it doesn't really scale to define a list of "important" services.