Kjeld Flarup's questions

After upgrading to 24.04 Thunderbird has migrated to snap, and now I got 4 copies of my Thunderbird profile.

$ du -sm snap/thunderbird/*/.thunderbird/v* .thunderbird/v*
11783   snap/thunderbird/507/.thunderbird/vwsjq0wp.default
11783   snap/thunderbird/509/.thunderbird/vwsjq0wp.default
11730   snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/vwsjq0wp.default
11782   .thunderbird/vwsjq0wp.default

current points to 507

$ ls -ld snap/thunderbird/current
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kfc kfc 3 Sep  2 00:25 snap/thunderbird/current -> 507

However common seems to be the folder which gets updated.

I know that ~/.thunderbird can be deleted, but I still got three copies of my profile.

Which can I delete, and how can I prevent snap from creating more duplicates when Thunderbird gets upgraded?

Is it possible to install a CD-ROM burner when running Ubuntu from the installation media as "Try Ubuntu"

I have tried with apt instal brasero k3b etc. and none was possible to locate.

The reason for my request is that I want to generate some "secret" signing keys, and store a backup on a CD-ROM to store in a safe. And I need to do it next week.

My daugthers HP x360 spectre has a problem when running Linux. When she closes the lid, it suspends, and shortly after it resumes, and then stays on in the bag.

I can do a "systemctl suspend", and it suspends. But if the lid is closed, then it starts again.

I can see this in the syslog

Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4154.225957] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.120 seconds) done.
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4154.346805] OOM killer disabled.
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4154.346807] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4154.348767] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4154.642790] ACPI: EC: interrupt blocked
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4157.541371] ACPI: EC: interrupt unblocked
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4158.703026] OOM killer enabled.
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4158.703031] Restarting tasks ...
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4158.707034] mei_hdcp 0000:00:16.0-b638ab7e-94e2-4ea2-a552-d1c54b627f04: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_hdcp_component_ops [i915])
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4158.707812] done.
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4158.715306] pcieport 10000:e0:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: 10000:e1:00.0
Feb 19 00:30:12 Spectre-x360-14 kernel: [ 4158.715324] nvme 10000:e1:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, (Receiver ID)

It seems that this causes starts the problem: "ACPI: EC: interrupt unblocked"

So my guess is that it has something to do with ACPI.

• I have tried to update the BIOS, but it claims to be latest.
• There is no ACPI settings in the BIOS.
• I have tried to add these to kernel command line pci=noaer pcie_ports=native.
• I have even tried to run "systemctl suspend" in crontab, which gave the same behaviour.

Anybody have an idea to what I can try next?

Ubuntu: 21.10

This is a brand new machine. She previously had an older x360 model, which worked fine, but a lot of IO has changed.

HP Spectre x360 Convertible
14-ea0xxx
Productnumber 4A6L5EA#UUW

I have a HP Spectre x360 14-ea0838no which does not do suspend.

I tried the tricks in this post: Ubuntu 18.04 - Dell XPS13 9370 no longer suspends on lid close But I'm not on a Dell.

I found out that I can do this command:

echo freeze > /sys/power/state

Then it actually does a kind of suspend. It is not deep, but at least it is turning of things.

Question, how do I make closing of the lid do this command?

It is hard to say what is happening in the screen when closing the lid, but pinging the computer reveals that the computer is still active.

The suspend menu is working, when using that pinging stops. Then the lid can be closed, and as soon as I open the lid, it all becomes active.

I just need closing of the lid to do the same trick.

When I start gimp I get these errors

$ gimp
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (failed to map segment from shared object): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (failed to map segment from shared object): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (failed to map segment from shared object): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (failed to map segment from shared object): ignored.
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
Gtk-Message: 10:24:04.029: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: 10:24:04.029: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: 10:24:04.029: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Gtk-Message: 10:24:04.030: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
gimp_check_updates_callback: loading of https://gimp.org/gimp_versions.json failed: Operation not supported

When I then open a file, it dislays, but when I move the mouse, my desktop goes black and I get a new login screen.

I'm running unity, ubuntu display manager does not work, it just goes black.

I have a suspicion on snap and apparmor, as the first I see in the syslog after starting gimp is this

Aug 16 10:19:26 kfc-XPS-15-9560 systemd[2128]: Started GNOME Terminal Server.
Aug 16 10:19:26 kfc-XPS-15-9560 systemd[2128]: Started VTE child process 5769 launched by gnome-terminal-server process 5761.
Aug 16 10:19:27 kfc-XPS-15-9560 zeitgeist-datah[5789]: zeitgeist-datahub.vala:227: Unable to get name "org.gnome.zeitgeist.datahub" on the bus!
Aug 16 10:19:31 kfc-XPS-15-9560 kernel: [  138.211911] kauditd_printk_skb: 4493 callbacks suppressed
Aug 16 10:19:31 kfc-XPS-15-9560 kernel: [  138.211912] audit: type=1400 audit(1597565971.209:12108): apparmor="DENIED" operation="file_mmap" profile="/snap/core/9804/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" name="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0" pid=5806 comm="snap-confine" requested_mask="m" denied_mask="m" fsuid=0 ouid=0
Aug 16 10:19:31 kfc-XPS-15-9560 kernel: [  138.211946] audit: type=1400 audit(1597565971.209:12109): apparmor="DENIED" operation="file_mmap" profile="/snap/core/9804/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" name="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0" pid=5806 comm="snap-confine" requested_mask="m" denied_mask="m" fsuid=0 ouid=0
Aug 16 10:19:31 kfc-XPS-15-9560 kernel: [  138.211996] audit: type=1400 audit(1597565971.209:12110): apparmor="DENIED" operation="file_mmap" profile="/snap/core/9804/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" name="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0" pid=5806 comm="snap-confine" requested_mask="m" denied_mask="m" fsuid=0 ouid=0
Aug 16 10:19:31 kfc-XPS-15-9560 kernel: [  138.582372] audit: type=1326 audit(1597565971.581:12111): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=3 pid=5806 comm="gimp" exe="/snap/gimp/292/usr/bin/gimp-2.10" sig=0 arch=c000003e syscall=93 compat=0 ip=0x7f7c33ed0527 code=0x50000
Aug 16 10:19:31 kfc-XPS-15-9560 hud-service[5221]: #033[31mvoid DBusMenuImporter::slotGetLayoutFinished(QDBusPendingCallWatcher*)#033[0m: "No such interface â<80><9c>com.canonical.dbusmenuâ<80><9d> on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/window/41943043"

I have tried to disable apparmor but I still gets DENIED in the syslog

systemctl disable apparmor.service

I have similar errors with libreoffice draw, just start it and try to draw a rectangle crashes the desktop. Also when I open a PDF file generated from Autocad, which contains a lot of small elements. In this case the mouse simply gets inactive, but I can still do operations with the keyboard.

Thus the error could also be in Xorg or even the nvidia drivers.

My system is a 19.10 upgraded to 20.04.1

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:    20.04
Codename:   focal

I have started to use a ubuntu 16.04 server, and set it up exactly the same way as my 14.04 servers (and conceptually like my 10.04 and 12.04 servers)

Now if I run sudo vi I get this error when exiting:

E886: Can't rename viminfo file to /home/kjeld/.viminfo!

My homedir is on NFS and of course root cannot write to that. Also on my old servers, root cannot write to /home/kjeld/.viminfo but they do not write an error message.

Anyone have an idea on what is new/changed with ubuntu 16.

vi maps to /usr/bin/vim.basic