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Until recently I've been using ppa:nginx/development but suddenly I can't install the nginx version from there anymore on 14.04.

https://launchpad.net/~nginx/+archive/ubuntu/development also states:

The following releases of Ubuntu are no longer supported in the PPA due to build dependencies or problems which cannot be resolved due to the age of the release:

• Trusty (14.04)

What other options do I have to get a more recent version of nginx on 14.04?

I need at least http2 support (I'm running 1.9 and 1.13 on some machines successfully).

According to the changelog, there was a security update pushed a few days ago:

supervisor (3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1) trusty-security; urgency=medium

• SECURITY UPDATE: Arbitrary code injection through XML-RPC
  • debian/patches/CVE-2017-11610.patch: disabling object traversal in XML-RPC dispatch in supervisor/test/test_xmlrc.py, supervisor/xmlrcp.py.
  • CVE-2017-11610

-- Leonidas S. Barbosa Thu, 17 May 2018 15:59:12 -0300

This is the package I had installed:

$ dpkg -p supervisorO
Package: supervisor
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 1485
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.0b2-1
Depends: python, python-meld3, python-pkg-resources (>= 0.6c7)
Size: 313972
Description: A system for controlling process state
 Supervisor is a system for controlling and maintaining process state,
 similar to what init does, but not intended as an init replacement.
 .
 It will manage individual processes or groups of processes that
 need to be started and stopped in order, and it is possible to
 control individual process state via an rpc mechanism, thus allowing
 ordinary users to restart processes.
Original-Maintainer: Qijiang Fan <[email protected]>
Homepage: http://supervisord.org/

This is how I updated and how the process went:

$ sudo apt-get install supervisor
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  supervisor
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
Need to get 244 kB of archives.
After this operation, 67.6 kB disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe supervisor all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1 [244 kB]
Fetched 244 kB in 0s (281 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 73862 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../supervisor_3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1_all.deb ...
Stopping supervisor: supervisord.
Unpacking supervisor (3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1) over (3.0b2-1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Setting up supervisor (3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1) ...
Starting supervisor: invoke-rc.d: initscript supervisor, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package supervisor (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

At this point the service was not running.

Manually starting worked though: sudo service supervisor start

I found this in the dpkg.log:

2018-05-22 10:18:19 startup archives unpack
2018-05-22 10:18:19 upgrade supervisor:all 3.0b2-1 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1
2018-05-22 10:18:19 status half-configured supervisor:all 3.0b2-1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status unpacked supervisor:all 3.0b2-1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status half-installed supervisor:all 3.0b2-1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status triggers-pending ureadahead:amd64 0.100.0-16
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status half-installed supervisor:all 3.0b2-1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status half-installed supervisor:all 3.0b2-1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status unpacked supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status unpacked supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 trigproc ureadahead:amd64 0.100.0-16 0.100.0-16
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status half-configured ureadahead:amd64 0.100.0-16
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status installed ureadahead:amd64 0.100.0-16
2018-05-22 10:18:20 startup packages configure
2018-05-22 10:18:20 configure supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1 <none>
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status unpacked supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status unpacked supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status unpacked supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status unpacked supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1
2018-05-22 10:18:20 status half-configured supervisor:all 3.0b2-1ubuntu0.1

I looked up the supervisor logs too, but didn't find anything conclusive:

2018-05-22 10:18:19,944 WARN received SIGTERM indicating exit request
2018-05-22 10:18:19,947 INFO waiting for laravel-daemon-es-posts_00, laravel-daemon-es-comments_00, laravel-horizon_00 to die
2018-05-22 10:18:22,008 INFO stopped: laravel-horizon_00 (exit status 0)
2018-05-22 10:18:23,014 INFO waiting for laravel-daemon-es-posts_00, laravel-daemon-es-comments_00 to die
2018-05-22 10:18:23,066 INFO stopped: laravel-daemon-es-posts_00 (terminated by SIGKILL)
2018-05-22 10:18:23,066 INFO stopped: laravel-daemon-es-comments_00 (terminated by SIGKILL)

2018-05-22 10:18:39,745 CRIT Supervisor running as root (no user in config file)
2018-05-22 10:18:39,745 WARN Included extra file "/etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel.conf" during parsing
2018-05-22 10:18:39,764 INFO RPC interface 'supervisor' initialized
2018-05-22 10:18:39,764 CRIT Server 'unix_http_server' running without any HTTP authentication checking
2018-05-22 10:18:39,765 INFO daemonizing the supervisord process
2018-05-22 10:18:39,765 INFO supervisord started with pid 9923
2018-05-22 10:18:40,771 INFO spawned: 'laravel-daemon-es-posts_00' with pid 9933
2018-05-22 10:18:40,773 INFO spawned: 'laravel-daemon-es-comments_00' with pid 9934
2018-05-22 10:18:40,775 INFO spawned: 'laravel-horizon_00' with pid 9935
2018-05-22 10:18:44,523 INFO success: laravel-daemon-es-posts_00 entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 3 seconds (startsecs)
2018-05-22 10:18:44,523 INFO success: laravel-daemon-es-comments_00 entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 3 seconds (startsecs)
2018-05-22 10:18:44,523 INFO success: laravel-horizon_00 entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 3 seconds (startsecs)

I made an artificial space gap where I paused to look at the situation and then started it manually.

Did I do anything wrong? I usually just perform sudo apt-get upgrade however I heard from a co-worker already about this problem but she didn't record the specifics so I used a test machine to perform this.

thanks!

I'm running 12.04 inside VMWare Workstation.

I'd like to have the shortcut Windows-E to open my home directory (Nautilus). I tried it two ways, but none worked:

1. Going to System Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts / Launchers / Home Folder I press Windows-E and it shows me Super+E, but when I press this key combination, I see a small text box in the lower right corner of my screen and the character e inside just typed (??)
2. Going to System Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts / Custom Shortcuts, add a new one named "Nautilus" and command "nautilus", but has the same effect: records my keystrokes but opens this weird text box in the lower right

Executing nautilus from gnome-terminal works, but nothing else.

The other observation I made: I have Windows+Down to "restore" the current window. Even when I use this combination, which is custom and works for this action, I cannot open my Home folder.

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Is there a shortcut to tile windows to left or right side of the screen?

I'm running 12.04 inside VMWare Workstation.

Windows 7 provides a very useful feature: use Windows+Left or Windows+Right to align the current window on the left/right half of the screen (useful for terminal windows on wide-screen, etc).

Is there an equivalent available for Ubuntu?

So far I was able to emulate Windows+Up (maximize window), but can't find anything for left/right alignments.

Just to be clear: I am not talking about "Move to Workspace" or so, I'm talking about resizing the current window on the current screen/workspace to only take the left/right half of the screen.

I'm running 12.04 inside VMWare Workstation.

What is wrong with my installation so that I cannot resize the window at the lower right corner? The lower left does work, albeit it's really hard to get it; upper left/right works OK, see this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMNItB0BN-8

Just to make it clear: this is not restricted to terminal, same with Firefox, synaptic, etc.

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How do I change the theme?

The default theme is OK for me, would just like to tune some colors, i.e. usually input field background color across all applications.

This was easily discoverable for me in e.g. 11.04 or earlier; where is that option in 11.10 ?

I found some existing answers using some external tools, etc. Is that really the only solution, did Canonical remove the way to adjust basic theme settings for user?

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Before upstart it was easy to get proper autocomplete, e.g. I type sudo /etc/init.d/rsys<tab> and what I want to do and there I go.

Now I need (?) to write sudo stop rsys<tab> but it doesn't work; seems the bash doesn't know what services can be started/stopped at this point.

Is there an Ubuntu package or manual activation for that?

I'm used to this Windows behavior that using CTRL+SHIFT+Cursor Keys I can select text word-wise. CTRL+Cursor Keys jumps word-wise and I use that a lot in combination with SHIFT to select text.

This seems to be a "Windows thing" because it just works in all application. Now turning to Ubuntu 10.04, it doesn't work. CTRL+SHIFT+Cursor Keys just behaves like CTRL+Cursor Keys, i.e. I jump between the words but I can't select them that way.

Another gotcha: I use CTRL+Cursor Keys to move fast between words, press down SHIFT, release CTRL and move the Cursor Keys to select text char by char and it doesn't work either. I need to release both keys complete.

Is there a way to enable this?