Mark Jeronimus's questions -ubuntu

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2020-06-23 02:18:22 +0800 CST

'Err Upgrade tool' with 'Authentication failed'

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I'm trying yo upgrade 18.04LTS to 20.04LTS.

What I've done in preparation:

Comparing my sources.list with this (identical except us→nl subdomains)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y update-manager-core
sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade
sudo apt remove wine-stable (package with unmet dependencies)
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (didn't perform anything)
sudo apt-get upgrade (because people say either apt or apt-get does more than the other)
Reboot

Then its giving me this error:

mark@mark:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [1554 B]                                                                                                                                                                      
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1342 kB]                                                                                                                                                                               
Err Upgrade tool                                                                                                                                                                                           
  Undetermined Error [IP: 213.136.12.213 80]                                                                                                                                                               
Fetched 1554 B in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                                                                                                                               
authenticate 'focal.tar.gz' against 'focal.tar.gz.gpg' 
Authentication failed
Authenticating the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server.

Searching with some of the key terms above gives 0 results on google.

There's no problem with my network, and there's plenty free disk space.

I tried removing /etc/apt/trusted.gpg, re-adding official Ubuntu keys, and doing apt-update. This succeeded, but it didn't help with the error above.

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2020-04-09 01:17:41 +0800 CST

VPN connects but remote network not accessible

0

I'm having a sudden issue. My workplace set up a VPN last month in preparation for working at home, and it worked fine. I stopped using it about two weeks ago. Now I need to use it again and it stopped functioning.

According to my coworker the server hasn't changed in a month, not even updates. I update/upgrade my client regularly (kernel is at 5.3.0-46-generic now).

I'm using the built-in VPN client of Ubuntu (in the network GUI) with authentication methods MSCHAP and MSCHAPv2

The symptoms are:

ping to internet IPs work
ping and host to internet addresses work (DNS resolves work)
ping to VPN server works
ping to other computer at work doesn't work anymore (one such computer is accessible through it's web interface so it's running and the IP (static route) hasn't changed)
traceroute to internet IP doesn't show any route through work (this was through work before)

Some extra information:

cat /etc/resolv.conf:

# Generated by NetworkManager
search dynamic.ziggo.nl
nameserver 127.0.0.53

Difference in ifconfig after enabling VPN:

ppp0: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST>  mtu 1400
        inet 192.168.178.231  netmask 255.255.255.255  destination 192.168.178.81
        ppp  txqueuelen 3  (Point-to-Point Protocol)
        RX packets 7  bytes 94 (94.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 7  bytes 112 (112.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Excerpt from cat /var/log/syslog|grep NetworkManager:

Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.2340] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860" name="VPN connection 1" pid=2325 uid=1000 result="success"
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.2375] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",0]: Started the VPN service, PID 3857
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.2428] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",0]: Saw the service appear; activating connection
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.3015] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",0]: VPN connection: (ConnectInteractive) reply received
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.3270] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: starting (3)
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.7/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Using interface ppp0
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.3338] manager: (ppp0): new Ppp device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/4)
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.3411] devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Apr  8 08:33:42 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327622.3411] device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: CHAP authentication succeeded
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: MPPE 128-bit stateless compression enabled
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: local  IP address 192.168.178.231
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: remote IP address 192.168.178.81
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: primary   DNS address 1.1.1.1
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: secondary DNS address 1.1.1.1
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4665] device (ppp0): state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'connection-assumed', sys-iface-state: 'external')
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4673] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",0]: VPN connection: (IP4 Config Get) reply received from old-style plugin
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4678] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data: VPN Gateway: 213.233.219.244
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4678] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data: Tunnel Device: "ppp0"
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4678] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data: IPv4 configuration:
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4678] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data:   Internal Address: 192.168.178.231
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4678] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data:   Internal Prefix: 32
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4679] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data:   Internal Point-to-Point Address: 192.168.178.81
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4679] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data:   Static Route: 192.168.178.81/32   Next Hop: 0.0.0.0
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4679] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data:   Internal DNS: 1.1.1.1
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4679] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data:   DNS Domain: '(none)'
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4679] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: Data: No IPv6 configuration
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4680] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: VPN plugin: state changed: started (4)
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4680] device (ppp0): state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'external')
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586327623.4695] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc2e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",4:(ppp0)]: VPN connection: (IP Config Get) complete
Apr  8 08:33:43 pc-2019 dbus-daemon[1004]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service' requested by ':1.12' (uid=0 pid=1027 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon " label="unconfined")

I don't have the syslog from last month anymore because it's more than 7 days ago, so I can't compare at which step it starts to differ.

syslog When disabling my vpn (note the Sent 0 bytes):

Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586331863.7062] audit: op="connection-deactivate" uuid="ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860" name="VPN connection 1" pid=2325 uid=1000 result="success"
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 dbus-daemon[1004]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service' requested by ':1.12' (uid=0 pid=1027 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon " label="unconfined")
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Terminating on signal 15
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Connect time 8.3 minutes.
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Sent 0 bytes, received 4546 bytes.
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: MPPE disabled
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Child process /usr/sbin/pptp 213.233.219.244 --nolaunchpppd --loglevel 0 --logstring nm-pptp-service-8228 (pid 8239) terminated with signal 15
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586331863.7090] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc6e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopping (5)
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586331863.7090] vpn-connection[0x55de7e6cc6e0,ffc0be21-f339-4781-9868-c36d8bd08860,"VPN connection 1",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopped (6)
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586331863.7099] device (ppp0): state change: disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'connection-assumed', sys-iface-state: 'external')
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: Connection terminated.
Apr  8 09:44:23 pc-2019 NetworkManager[1027]: <info>  [1586331863.7298] devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)

Any idea how this might be resolved?

[As requested]:

mark@pc-2019:~$ ip r
default via 192.168.1.1 dev enp34s0 proto dhcp metric 100 
169.254.0.0/16 dev enp34s0 scope link metric 1000 
192.168.1.0/24 dev enp34s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.23 metric 100 
213.233.219.244 via 192.168.1.1 dev enp34s0 src 192.168.1.23 
mark@pc-2019:~$ ip r
default via 192.168.1.1 dev enp34s0 proto dhcp metric 100 
169.254.0.0/16 dev enp34s0 scope link metric 1000 
192.168.1.0/24 dev enp34s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.23 metric 100 
192.168.1.1 dev enp34s0 proto static scope link metric 100 
192.168.178.81 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.178.245 metric 50 
213.233.219.244 via 192.168.1.1 dev enp34s0 src 192.168.1.23 
213.233.219.244 via 192.168.1.1 dev enp34s0 proto static metric 100

Note: enp34s0 = local adapter (something like eth0)

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2019-12-17 00:36:02 +0800 CST

How to prevent saving bash commands with space in front

8

I read that, in order to not save bash commands to .bash_history, you put a space in front. This worked on all my embedded Linux PCs but not on my desktop with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I just thought it was an Ubuntu 'quirk' or something. Now I've installed a second PC with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and it works as expected: commands with a space in front are not saved!

So there's possibly something wrong with the first PC with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. How can I figure out what's causing this and fix it so it doesn't save bash commands with space in front?

Excerpt:

mark@mark:~$ tail -n 5 .bash_history 
./deploy.sh 
./deploy.sh 
upd
 man ls
nano .bash_history 
mark@mark:~$

Possibly useful stuff:

mark@mark:~$ cat .bashrc 
alias upd="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autoremove"
export PATH="$PATH:"/opt/microchip/xc8/v1.44/bin""

mark@mark:~$ printenv
CLUTTER_IM_MODULE=xim
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
KIGITHUB=https://github.com/KiCad
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
MANAGERPID=1252
DISPLAY=:0
INVOCATION_ID=26457eadc1b8429692b7f3bd70c6464f
UNITY_DEFAULT_PROFILE=unity
COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE=ubuntu
GTK2_MODULES=overlay-scrollbar:overlay-scrollbar
GTK_CSD=0
COLORTERM=truecolor
ZEITGEIST_DATA_PATH=/home/mark/.local/share/zeitgeist
USERNAME=mark
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/unity.mandatory.path
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
USER=mark
DESKTOP_SESSION=unity
QT4_IM_MODULE=xim
TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale/
GNOME_TERMINAL_SCREEN=/org/gnome/Terminal/screen/24f3cfef_6815_4cfb_8cdc_6c63814db4b6
DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/unity.default.path
PWD=/home/mark
HOME=/home/mark
JOURNAL_STREAM=9:1719321
TEXTDOMAIN=im-config
QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
COMPIZ_BIN_PATH=/usr/bin/
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/unity:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=unity
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
SSH_AGENT_LAUNCHER=gnome-keyring
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge:unity-gtk-module
PAPERSIZE=letter
WINDOWPATH=3
GNOME_SESSION_XDG_SESSION_PATH=
TERM=xterm-256color
VTE_VERSION=5202
SHELL=/bin/bash
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
IM_CONFIG_PHASE=2
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
GNOME_TERMINAL_SERVICE=:1.617
UNITY_HAS_3D_SUPPORT=true
SHLVL=3
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
GDMSESSION=unity
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
LOGNAME=mark
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-unity:/etc/xdg
PATH=/home/mark/bin:/home/mark/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin:/opt/microchip/xc8/v1.44/bin:/opt/microchip/xc8/v1.44/bin:/opt/microchip/xc8/v1.44/bin
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LD_PRELOAD=libgtk3-nocsd.so.0:libgtk3-nocsd.so.0
SESSION_MANAGER=local/mark:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/19058,unix/mark:/tmp/.ICE-unix/19058
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2019-12-06 07:39:36 +0800 CST

How to roll back massive apt install command

2

I know how I can roll back apt install <package> and autoremove all it's dependencies, but this is not my problem.

My problem is that some script executed a massive apt install command (found in /var/log/apt/history.log) but I cannot willy-nilly revert it by replacing install by purge, because I'm afraid there are packages in the list that I had beforehand and were just also needed by the script.

How can I uninstall only the packages that I didn't have before this command executed?

Here's the entire line from the log (472 packages):

Commandline: apt-get install ant ant-optional apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils at autoconf automake autopoint autotools-dev binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf binutils-mingw-w64-i686 binutils-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 binutils-mipsel-linux-gnu bzip2-doc cdbs cmake cmake-data comerr-dev cpp-5-arm-linux-gnueabihf cpp-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf cpp-arm-linux-gnueabihf curl dctrl-tools debhelper debugedit devscripts dh-autoreconf dh-strip-nondeterminism dh-translations dput elfutils fonts-lato g++-5-arm-linux-gnueabihf g++-5-multilib-arm-linux-gnueabihf g++-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf g++-7-multilib g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf g++-mingw-w64-i686 gcc-5-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-5-arm-linux-gnueabihf-base gcc-5-cross-base gcc-5-multilib-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-7-arm-linux-gnueabihf-base gcc-7-cross-base gcc-7-multilib gcc-8-cross-base gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf gcc-mingw-w64-base gcc-mingw-w64-i686 gdal-data giblib1 gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 gnome-icon-theme gperf ibverbs-providers icu-devtools intltool jq krb5-multidev lib32asan4 lib32atomic1 lib32cilkrts5 lib32gcc-7-dev lib32gcc1 lib32gomp1 lib32itm1 lib32mpx2 lib32ncurses5 lib32ncurses5-dev lib32quadmath0 lib32stdc++-7-dev lib32stdc++6 lib32tinfo-dev lib32tinfo5 lib32ubsan0 lib32z1 lib32z1-dev libaec0 libapache2-mod-php7.2 libappindicator3-dev libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libarchive-cpio-perl libarmadillo8 libarpack2 libasan2-armhf-cross libasan4-armhf-cross libasm1 libasound2-dev libatk-bridge2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libatomic1-armhf-cross libatspi2.0-dev libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libb-hooks-op-check-perl libbluetooth-dev libbrlapi-dev libbz2-dev libc6-armel-armhf-cross libc6-armel-cross libc6-armhf-cross libc6-dev:i386 libc6-dev-armel-armhf-cross libc6-dev-armel-cross libc6-dev-armhf-cross libc6-dev-i386 libc6-dev-x32 libc6-i386 libc6-x32 libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2-dev libcap-dev 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libgnome-keyring-common libgnome-keyring-dev libgnome-keyring0 libgomp1-armhf-cross libgraphite2-3:i386 libgraphite2-dev libgssrpc4 libgtk-3-dev libharfbuzz-dev libharfbuzz-gobject0 libharfbuzz0b:i386 libhdf4-0-alt libhdf5-100 libhdf5-openmpi-100 libhwloc-plugins libhwloc5 libibverbs1 libicu-dev libicu-le-hb-dev libicu-le-hb0 libiculx60 libid3tag0 libimlib2 libimport-into-perl libio-stringy-perl libisl15 libjbig-dev libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8-dev libjq1 libjsoncpp1 libkadm5clnt-mit11 libkadm5srv-mit11 libkdb5-9 libkmlbase1 libkmldom1 libkmlengine1 libkrb5-dev liblept5 liblist-compare-perl libltdl-dev liblzma-dev libmail-sendmail-perl libmenu-cache-bin libmenu-cache3 libminizip1 libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libmoo-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libnetcdf-c++4 libnetcdf13 libnl-route-3-200 libnspr4:i386 libnspr4-dev libnss3:i386 libnss3-dev libnumber-compare-perl libnumber-range-perl libobrender32v5 libobt2v5 libogdi3.2 libonig4 libopencv-calib3d3.2 libopencv-contrib3.2 libopencv-core3.2 libopencv-features2d3.2 libopencv-flann3.2 libopencv-highgui3.2 libopencv-imgcodecs3.2 libopencv-imgproc3.2 libopencv-ml3.2 libopencv-objdetect3.2 libopencv-photo3.2 libopencv-shape3.2 libopencv-stitching3.2 libopencv-superres3.2 libopencv-video3.2 libopencv-videoio3.2 libopencv-videostab3.2 libopencv-viz3.2 libopengl0 libopenmpi2 libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl libpam0g-dev libpango-1.0-0:i386 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-0:i386 libpango1.0-dev libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 libpangox-1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0:i386 libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386 libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl libparams-validate-perl libpath-iterator-rule-perl libpath-tiny-perl libpci-dev libpci3:i386 libpcre16-3 libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpixman-1-dev libpng-dev libpng-tools libpod-constants-perl libpq5 libproj12 libpsm-infinipath1 libpulse-dev libqhull7 librdmacm1 libregexp-pattern-license-perl librhash0 librole-tiny-perl librpm8 librpmbuild8 librpmio8 librpmsign8 libruby2.5 libsctp-dev libsctp1 libserf-1-1 libsfasan2-armhf-cross libsfatomic1-armhf-cross libsfgcc-5-dev-armhf-cross libsfgcc1-armhf-cross libsfgomp1-armhf-cross libsfstdc++-5-dev-armhf-cross libsfstdc++6-armhf-cross libsfubsan0-armhf-cross libsocket++1 libsort-key-perl libsort-versions-perl libspatialite7 libspeechd-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libssl-dev:i386 libstdc++-5-dev-armhf-cross libstdc++-7-dev-armhf-cross libstdc++6-armhf-cross libstrictures-perl libstring-copyright-perl libstring-escape-perl libsub-exporter-perl libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-identify-perl libsub-install-perl libsub-quote-perl libsuperlu5 libsvn1 libsys-hostname-long-perl libsz2 libtbb2 libtesseract4 libtext-glob-perl libtext-unidecode-perl libthai0:i386 libtiff-dev libtiff5-dev libtiffxx5 libtinfo-dev:i386 libtool libubsan0-armhf-cross libudev-dev libunicode-utf8-perl liburiparser1 libuv1 libvariable-magic-perl libvtk6.3 libwayland-bin libwayland-dev libx11-xcb-dev libx32asan4 libx32atomic1 libx32cilkrts5 libx32gcc-7-dev libx32gcc1 libx32gomp1 libx32itm1 libx32quadmath0 libx32stdc++-7-dev libx32stdc++6 libx32ubsan0 libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxft2:i386 libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxshmfence-dev libxslt1-dev libxss-dev libxtst-dev libxtst6:i386 libxxf86vm-dev licensecheck linux-libc-dev:i386 linux-libc-dev-armel-cross linux-libc-dev-armhf-cross mesa-common-dev mingw-w64-common mingw-w64-i686-dev obconf obsession odbcinst odbcinst1debian2 openbox openbox-menu openmpi-bin openmpi-common php-common php7.2-cgi php7.2-cli php7.2-common php7.2-json php7.2-opcache php7.2-readline pkg-config po-debconf proj-bin proj-data python-asn1crypto python-cffi-backend python-cherrypy3 python-cryptography python-enum34 python-idna python-ipaddress python-opencv python-openssl python-psutil python-repoze.lru python-routes python-simplejson python-webob python-yaml python3-gpg python3-magic python3-unidiff rake rpm rpm-common rpm2cpio ruby ruby-did-you-mean ruby-minitest ruby-net-telnet ruby-power-assert ruby-test-unit ruby2.5 rubygems-integration scrot subversion tex-common texinfo uuid-dev wayland-protocols wdiff x11proto-composite-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xcompmgr xutils-dev xvfb zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev:i386

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2019-03-18 04:02:21 +0800 CST

How to quickly browse through floppy image files

0

I know how to mоunt a floppy image, but I want to quickly browse trough many images in a rapid fashion.

In Windows (with a Total Commander plugin) I can browse through archives as if they were directories. And images (of single partitions) are treated as archives. I can enter an archive, see the contents, go up, arrow down to the next archive and repeat. This way I can reach speeds of up to 1-2 floppy images per second.

How can I do the same in Ubuntu (in Gnome or whatever) (without fully emulating everything in Wine)?

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2019-02-14 01:03:07 +0800 CST

Fix packages with missing files

2

Somehow two packages (that I don't want anymore) got corrupted after a file system check and are now missing files.

I installed and initialized debsums and when I run it it gives a load of missing files (and only missing files).

I tried these commands (found all over the place):

sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt install brscan4
sudo apt remove brscan4
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt install --reinstall brscan4
sudo apt install -f --reinstall brscan4
sudo apt-get -f install (without package name)
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq brscan4
sudo apt-get purge --remove brscan4
[added] dpkg -P brscan4

Notably, dpkg --configure -a seems to be recommended everywhere as if it's the final last-resort solution that's supposed to fix it.

They all give the exact same error:

Removing brscan4 (0.4.4-3) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.prerm: 3: /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.prerm: /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4: not found
dpkg: error processing package brscan4 (--remove): installed brscan4 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 127

These commands do nothing to the corrupted packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt update --fix-missing

How can I fix this short of reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch? (his final solution, see chat)

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2019-02-13 05:41:45 +0800 CST

Java programs don't repaint GUI after Ubuntu update

4

After I updated Ubuntu yesterday, Java programs don't update their GUI after the initial update. When moving the mouse over the GUI things that respond to mouse movements will show up on an unrelated background:

This is very inconvenient for me as this is my work PC and I'm a Java developer.

Today's Ubuntu updates didn't change anything. I updated Java to Oracle JDK 8u202 and OpenJDK 8u191, tried both, and both show the same behavior. (I know when my programs are running in either JDK because of the differences in font rendering.) The only Java program that doesn't seem to be affected is IntelliJ running on the JetBrains VM, but I cannot use this VM for development because we require Java 8 (and not newer).

[edit] I found and installed JetBrains JDK 8u202 and it has the same problems.

Before you ask, it's not a problem with my programs. It also happens to NetBeans, to older versions from the repo, and there are graphical glitches (nothing serious) in Firefox. So the root cause may not be specifically related to Java.

Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS using Gnome on Xorg
Compiz 0.9.13.1
Intel HD Graphics 530

[Update] I re-installed Ubuntu for other reasons (with keep home directory) and it's fixed. The question is still open as to what caused it and how it can be solved?

[Update2] After I installed wine (and dependencies) The exact same problem came back again. It must be one one of these 141 packages. How do I find out which causes the problem?

<pointless package list was here>

[Update3] I uninstalled wine and all dependencies (apt autoremove) and uninstalled even more, and the problem persists.

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2019-02-13 00:20:47 +0800 CST

How to force fix file systems during boot

5

I have two disks, at / and /home/ and both show errors with e2fsck -fn /dev/<disk>. _{(-f = check even if 'clean', -n = read-only mode)}

How can I fix these file-system errors?

I managed to enable boot-time scanning (unsure if it scans both), but afterwards both disks still give errors.

Details

I followed the guide at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-force-fsck-to-check-filesystem-after-system-reboot-on-linux and the method with the touch file didn't work even for the root disk. Ubuntu complains:

Feb 11 17:11:02 mark systemd-fsck[690]: Please pass 'fsck.mode=force' on the kernel command line rather than creating /forcefsck on the root file system.

I tried the second option on both disks, editing /etc/fstab to set the result code to 2 and executing tune2fs -c 1 /dev/disk for both disks. Since the, during every boot I see:

Press Ctrl+C to cancel all filesystem checks in progress
Checking in progress on 1 disk (26.0% completed)

It shows 1 disk (I expected two). ~~It starts at 26% and goes up to (almost) 100%.~~_{(it looked like that because the monitor was switching resolution)}

After logging in, when I execute e2fsck on both disks, I still find multiple errors, like orphaned inodes, wrong free node count, zero dtime inodes, block bitmap differences, etc.

How can I fix the errors I find with e2fsck, during boot-time?

The errors:

mark@mark:~$ sudo e2fsck -nf /dev/sda5; sudo e2fsck -nf /dev/sdb1
e2fsck 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Warning!  /dev/sda5 is mounted.
Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Free blocks count wrong (51260638, counted=51258463).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong (13280655, counted=13280622).
Fix? no

/dev/sda5: 154225/13434880 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 2464034/53724672 blocks
e2fsck 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Warning!  /dev/sdb1 is mounted.
Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.  Fix? no

Inode 21235676 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Inode 21236927 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Inode 21237621 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Inode 21237990 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Inode 21238402 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Inode 21238464 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Deleted inode 21238506 has zero dtime.  Fix? no

Inode 21238523 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Inode 21238553 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Inode 35651957 was part of the orphaned inode list.  IGNORED.
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Entry 'Ubuntu notes.txt' in /mark/Documents (21233680) has deleted/unused inode 21238530.  Clear? no

Entry 'desktop-metadata' in /mark/.config/nautilus (21233804) has deleted/unused inode 21238525.  Clear? no

Entry 'xulstore.json' in /mark/.thunderbird/rhccmynw.default (21495857) has deleted/unused inode 21498027.  Clear? no

Entry 'lock' in /mark/.thunderbird/rhccmynw.default (21495857) has deleted/unused inode 21497953.  Clear? no

Entry 'global-messages-db.sqlite-journal' in /mark/.thunderbird/rhccmynw.default (21495857) references inode 21498857 found in group 2624's unused inodes area.
Fix? no

Entry 'global-messages-db.sqlite-journal' in /mark/.thunderbird/rhccmynw.default (21495857) has deleted/unused inode 21498857.  Clear? no

Entry 'cba86d7c-56f1-4b53-9002-e6008d7ec077' in /mark/.thunderbird/rhccmynw.default/saved-telemetry-pings (21629137) has deleted/unused inode 21627358.  Clear? no

Entry 'recovery.baklz4' in /mark/.mozilla/firefox/1oxfnaca.default-1536326026399/sessionstore-backups (23592969) has deleted/unused inode 23594226.  Clear? no

Entry 'storage.js' in /mark/.mozilla/firefox/1oxfnaca.default-1536326026399/browser-extension-data/[email protected] (26869816) has deleted/unused inode 26869799.  Clear? no

Entry 'home-132a535f.log' in /mark/.local/share/gvfs-metadata (21233829) has deleted/unused inode 21238552.  Clear? no

Entry 'DEB72738C9A4BD2631567485A211516096512633' in /mark/.cache/thunderbird/rhccmynw.default/cache2/entries (21233899) has deleted/unused inode 21238528.  Clear? no

Entry 'E86D0879A15003F74582DAA01F04268E5E3A6193' in /mark/.cache/thunderbird/rhccmynw.default/cache2/entries (21233899) has deleted/unused inode 21238550.  Clear? no

Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Unattached inode 21238336
Connect to /lost+found? no

Unattached inode 21238501
Connect to /lost+found? no

Unattached zero-length inode 21498131.  Clear? no

Unattached inode 21498131
Connect to /lost+found? no

Unattached zero-length inode 23593885.  Clear? no

Unattached inode 23593885
Connect to /lost+found? no

Unattached zero-length inode 26869802.  Clear? no

Unattached inode 26869802
Connect to /lost+found? no

Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences:  -(84968536--84968537) -(84968580--84968581) -84968797 +(84968918--84968919) -(84969152--84969154) +(84970738--84970739) -(84971372--84971374) -(84971940--84971961) -(84971993--84972003) +85247486 -(85288043--85288050) +(85288078--85288079) -(85418135--85418145) +(85418146--85418148) +85578637 -(85581356--85581366) -(85581436--85581437) -(85581454--85581470) -(85581486--85581490) -(85581862--85581873) -(85581875--85581885) +85582421 -85582422 -(85582435--85582436) -85582440 -(85582460--85582470) -(85582476--85582477) -(85587974--85587984) +(85588047--85588054) -85588058 -(85588061--85588088) -85588094 -(85689681--85689810) -(86016016--86016017) +(86016046--86016047) +86016126 +(86016205--86016207) -(86016244--86016247) +(86384640--86384647) +(86453944--86453945) +(86454004--86454008) -(86540452--86540454) -88113216 -(88836576--88836603) -(90732824--90732825) -(94589879--94589887) -(94590320--94590334) -(110201600--110201638) -(110209536--110209696) +(129848128--129848166) -(136747992--136749179) -(138456000--138456038) +(142697944--142697951) +(142697953--142697977) +(142701330--142701332)
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2593 (20540, counted=20533).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2601 (27008, counted=27009).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2602 (30229, counted=30231).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2606 (17690, counted=17693).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2611 (18206, counted=18122).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2615 (18615, counted=18485).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2636 (26230, counted=26238).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2638 (19435, counted=19446).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2641 (29547, counted=29544).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2712 (18146, counted=18130).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2768 (15344, counted=15342).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2884 (974, counted=971).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #2886 (6832, counted=6822).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #3360 (22484, counted=21894).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #3363 (3835, counted=3635).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #3962 (5153, counted=5192).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #4173 (26643, counted=25455).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong for group #4354 (25277, counted=25313).
Fix? no

Free blocks count wrong (189550061, counted=189547835).
Fix? no

Inode bitmap differences:  -21235676 -21236927 -21237621 -21237990 -21238402 -21238464 -21238506 -21238523 -21238525 -21238528 -21238530 -21238550 -(21238552--21238553) -21497953 -21498027 +21498131 -21498857 -21627358 +23593885 -23594226 -26869799 +26869802 -27918519 -27918526 -35651957
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #2592 (2527, counted=2522).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #2624 (5146, counted=5144).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #2640 (6403, counted=6402).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #2880 (140, counted=139).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #3408 (5367, counted=5365).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong (60153933, counted=60153866).
Fix? no


/dev/sdb1: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********

/dev/sdb1: 901043/61054976 files (0.4% non-contiguous), 54639880/244189941 blocks

[edit] Added requested output of smartctl

mark@mark:~$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda5; sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdb1
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-15-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     KINGSTON SUV400S37240G
Serial Number:    50026B776B003933
LU WWN Device Id: 0 550380 440010000
Firmware Version: 0C3J96R9
User Capacity:    240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      M.2
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   Unknown(0x0ffe), ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Feb 28 11:30:37 2019 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                    without error or no self-test has ever 
                    been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:        (    5) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:            (0x71) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                    No Auto Offline data collection support.
                    Suspend Offline collection upon new
                    command.
                    No Offline surface scan supported.
                    Self-test supported.
                    Conveyance Self-test supported.
                    Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                    power-saving mode.
                    Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                    General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:    (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:    (   5) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:    (   0) minutes.
SCT capabilities:          (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                    SCT Feature Control supported.
                    SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 48
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4502
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       496
100 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       915296
101 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       198848
170 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
171 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
172 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
174 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       9
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
176 Erase_Fail_Count_Chip   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       269
178 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Chip  0x0002   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
180 Unused_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0002   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1194
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0033   100   100   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   027   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       27 (Min/Max 20/35)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
201 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
204 Soft_ECC_Correction     0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
231 Temperature_Celsius     0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1575
234 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       920
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1374
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1456
250 Read_Error_Retry_Rate   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 0
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-15-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Red
Device Model:     WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC4J4TC3CEE
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b8acbc22
Firmware Version: 82.00A82
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Feb 28 11:30:37 2019 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                    without error or no self-test has ever 
                    been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:        (13500) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:            (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                    Suspend Offline collection upon new
                    command.
                    Offline surface scan supported.
                    Self-test supported.
                    Conveyance Self-test supported.
                    Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                    power-saving mode.
                    Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                    General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:    (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:    ( 154) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:    (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:          (0x303d) SCT Status supported.
                    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                    SCT Feature Control supported.
                    SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   137   136   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       4141
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       502
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age   Always       -       4497
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       502
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       11
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       564
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   113   109   000    Old_age   Always       -       30
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2018-11-27 08:20:51 +0800 CST

Find what starts on login

0

What are all the places where things can start from, at login of Ubuntu (Gnome)?

There's an application that crashes every time I log in and I want to remove it (but not the application itself because it runs fine when started manually; the startup is probably some updater)

It's not in Gnome's "Startup Applications"
crontab -e of administrator and user are both empty
It's not in snap

Could it be other cron jobs scheduled to run on each login? I've tried and can't find a way how to list cron jobs. What other places than these can I look?

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2018-09-06 07:22:43 +0800 CST

Prevent alias with `find` from running at login

1

How do I make an alias in .bashrc with sub-commands?

Right now I have:

alias pngc="for file in \`find \$1 -name \"*.png\"\`; do pngcrush -brute \"\$file\" temp.png; mv -f temp.png \$file; done"

If I enter this in a shell, the alias is registered correctly and I can run it correctly. However, if I add this to .bashrc, (parts of) it runs at login, which I know because it hangs for a huge amount of time, probably because it's find-ing in my entire home directory.

(Not a duplicate of this or that)

Edits based on comments:

Attempt:

alias pngc="for file in ./*.png; do pngcrush -brute \"\$file\" temp.png; mv -f temp.png \$file; done"

Could not find file: ./*.png
Could not find file: temp.png

(temp is the current directory)

Attempt:

alias pngc="for file in ./*.png; do [[ -f \"\$i\" ]] || continue; pngcrush -brute \"\$file\" temp.png; mv -f temp.png \$file; done"

Does nothing!

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2018-09-01 06:31:35 +0800 CST

Can't bind Ctrl+Shift+key if Ctrl+key is bound

3

Somehow when I bind Ctrl+key with any typeable key in the Gnome's keyboard settings, then the combination Ctrl+Shift+key can't be used anywhere. The programs in which I use this key combo don't respond at all. When I don't bind Ctrl+key in Gnome, then the programs respond to Ctrl+Shift+key normally.

I stumbled upon this because I want to disable Ctrl+Q which many programs use as quit. I read in different places that I can 'disable' a shortcut by re-binding it to /bin/false or /bin/true. While this worked like a charm in Unity, it doesn't seem to work the same way in Gnome, and Gnome is now the new window manager of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Can someone give me a deeper explanation about what's going on here?
How can I disable Ctrl+Q without disabling Ctrl+Shift+Q (without going back to Unity)?

Mark Jeronimus

Asked: 2016-01-21 02:13:49 +0800 CST

Kernel panic after update 3.16.0-57

2

I'm running Lubuntu 14.04 on a HP Mini 5103 and after an upgrade yesterday I get a perfectly reproducable kernel panic.

Kernel that panics: 3.16.0-57
Kernel that doesn't panic: 3.16.0-56

Maybe related, but for the past half year or so, whenever I saw a notice for new updates and I tried to install them, sometimes (part of) the updates install fine and other times I get some error. When I try to submit the error, it asks for my password. Then this password dialog crashes when I confirm and spawns another report error dialog that asks for password again, which crashes again, etc...

My current workaround is to hold [shift] every time I turn on the computer and select the previous kernel, but I don't want to keep doing this. What I like is to:

Uninstall this offensive kernel, or
Select the previous kernel as default.

[edit]

ls -l /boot
total 216922
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213454 aug 11 20:09 abi-3.16.0-46-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213779 aug 21 02:41 abi-3.16.0-48-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213632 sep  9 13:36 abi-3.16.0-49-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213747 okt 23 17:39 abi-3.16.0-52-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213747 nov  6 21:36 abi-3.16.0-53-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213747 nov 17 13:30 abi-3.16.0-55-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213821 dec  2 14:55 abi-3.16.0-56-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1213821 jan 18 17:56 abi-3.16.0-59-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176153 aug 11 20:09 config-3.16.0-46-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176172 aug 21 02:41 config-3.16.0-48-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176172 sep  9 13:36 config-3.16.0-49-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176172 okt 23 17:39 config-3.16.0-52-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176172 nov  6 21:36 config-3.16.0-53-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176172 nov 17 13:30 config-3.16.0-55-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176172 dec  2 14:55 config-3.16.0-56-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176172 jan 18 17:56 config-3.16.0-59-generic
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root     1024 jan 20 16:36 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19862602 sep  3 08:29 initrd.img-3.16.0-46-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19861440 sep  4 13:03 initrd.img-3.16.0-48-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19861112 sep 25 12:40 initrd.img-3.16.0-49-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19861936 nov  5 08:57 initrd.img-3.16.0-52-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19861924 nov 20 14:12 initrd.img-3.16.0-53-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19862906 dec  1 09:21 initrd.img-3.16.0-55-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19864377 dec 17 09:04 initrd.img-3.16.0-56-generic
drwx------ 2 root root    12288 aug 29 16:41 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   176500 mrt 12  2014 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   178176 mrt 12  2014 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   178680 mrt 12  2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw------- 1 root root  2792155 aug 11 20:09 System.map-3.16.0-46-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  2791983 aug 21 02:41 System.map-3.16.0-48-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  2791983 sep  9 13:36 System.map-3.16.0-49-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  2792803 okt 23 17:39 System.map-3.16.0-52-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  2792803 nov  6 21:36 System.map-3.16.0-53-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  2792814 nov 17 13:30 System.map-3.16.0-55-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  2793015 dec  2 14:55 System.map-3.16.0-56-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  2793015 jan 18 17:56 System.map-3.16.0-59-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6017280 aug 11 20:09 vmlinuz-3.16.0-46-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6017696 aug 21 02:41 vmlinuz-3.16.0-48-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6017504 sep  9 13:36 vmlinuz-3.16.0-49-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6018848 okt 23 17:39 vmlinuz-3.16.0-52-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6018848 nov  6 21:36 vmlinuz-3.16.0-53-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6020480 nov 17 13:30 vmlinuz-3.16.0-55-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6020960 dec  2 14:55 vmlinuz-3.16.0-56-generic
-rw------- 1 root root  6020800 jan 18 17:56 vmlinuz-3.16.0-59-generic

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