User1: is backports really needed for servers ?
User2: depends what packages you need :P
User1: hehe
User1: User2 1-0
User1: User2 but not many packages in there ?
User2: patdk-lap: well, I guess that may be true for ubuntu, being a wee bit bleeding edge for most sysadmins. It's quite nice with debian, where the standard track is rather on the conservative side
User2: I'm aware of that
User3: I'm looking at my syslog, and see: connect from unknown[91.69.162.6] ... is this a connection attempt, or is this a successful connection from that IP address?
User3: a second later I see: disconnect from unknown[91.69.162.6]
User3: the full line is: postfix/smtpd[20890]: disconnect from unknown[91.69.162.6]
User4: Launchpad bug 1569925 in systemd (Ubuntu) "Shutdown hang on 16.04 with iscsi targets" [High,Confirmed]
User5: Good morning
User6: hello everyone, can anyone help me regarding squid3 basic authentication from internet, which is behind NAT.
User7: Hey there! I'd like to receive kernel updates, but i use the non-default 4.8 on 16.04. Is there a metapkg like linux-image-generic that points to a latest 4.8.0 kernel? (4.8 is required because it seems to have the ACS override patch applied / useful IOMMU groups)
User7: â¦apt-cache search linux-image output doesn't look promising, did i overlook something?
User8: User7 if you don't get an answer here, try asking in #ubuntu-kernel. Also there might be more people who know on a weekday.
User7: User8 aye, thanks
User9: User7 I was going to suggest the linux-generic-hwe package, but I guess that's not what you need?
User7: User9 hmm, it points to the latest 4.8 (check), but what does hwe stand for?
User7: â¦found it, btw, hwe stands for hardware enablement
User10: is anybody doing something "magical" with write caching to allow backups with no downtime? or is it just a crazy idea?
User10: so basically turn some knob that stops writes to going to disk but just put them in cache, run a snapshot of the disk, flush writes to disk/re-enable writing as usual
User10: I realize that during the window of the snap if something happens you're screwed, but it's a risk I'd be willing to take in a few scenarios I need to deal with where I don't have slaves to take backups and don't want to stop services/block writes
User1: patdk-lap: yap, I have added it, it's only 2G
User1: User2 ^
User2: 2G what?
User11: hi, is there a way to check which pci dev-id a network interface is ?
User11: i.e. what does eth0 map to
User11: (trying to identify nic's)
User11: ah... lshw has it
User11: my bad
User12: hey guys. How can I fix this issue with dependencies on my locales when trying to install tmux? https://pastebin.com/Q35vgvhz
User12: and when I do apt-get -f install I get this: https://pastebin.com/Lf7HfmgX
User12: which is more than a little scary to be frank
User13: WACOMalt, is this on Zesty?
User14: User12 what exactly did you do before that...
User12: this has been plagueing me for so long I have no idea what I did as it was like half a year ago
User12: and how do I check my ubuntu version :X
User12: I think its 14.04 server LTS
User12: User13 yes just confirmed I am on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
User14: it looks like you added third party repositories for some other release then
User12: https://pastebin.com/raw/7GxqHuFX
User12: that's my apt/sources.list
User12: I dont see anything fishy
User14: lsb_release -d
User12: already found it, thanks :)
User12: 14.04.5 LTS
User14: what sources are in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
User12: User14 https://pastebin.com/raw/8M3R2EGL
User12: looks like everything is for trusty
User14: except for btsync maybe?
User14: (also, those are just filenames, of course)
User12: User14 went into btsync and all the others in text editor
User12: all say trusty
User12: any idea how I can force it to reinstall locales or whatever it's hanging on?
User14: not until you find out what is causing this really
User14: well, maybe find out if you have any packages installed that don't come from these repositories
User12: that's why I'm here, for help finding out what's causing this
User12: I'm completely out of my depths
User10: User12 what were you trying to install? generally speaking if you get to the point of running apt-get with -f something failed previously to install
User12: previously, I dont know. like Is aid it was likely 6 months ago
User12: currently, tmux
User10: User12 I assume you're not storing logs for that long, are you?
User10: User12 anything in /var/log/apt ?
User10: especially history.log(.x.gz)
User10: also is this a server install? assume so since this is -server, but why the gnome packages? did you put a gui on the server?
User12: at one point yes. I was using x-server forwarding
User10: User12 I assume you ddi an apt-get update and evreything is ok?
User10: do you have anything in /etc/apt/sourced.list.d/ ?
User14: https://pastebin.com/raw/8M3R2EGL
User14: supposedly they are all intended for trusty
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