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Basically the headline. I‘ve been told by a colleague to not upgrade ubuntu immediately but wait for a couple months for bugixes and such. Is that correct?

I‘m currently on 23.04.

Hi folks, I have recently changed my daily driver to ubuntu desktop and I use thunderbird quite a lot. Works good for me. I've seen that it has a matrix client (which doesnt work that great for me yet). Do you think it will get a lemmy/masto client as well? Would make sense imo. Have a good one.

Hi! I‘m very new to ubuntu desktop. I‘m a server admin so linux is not new to me but a gui/desktop very much is.

What aesthetic or functional tweaks do you make to your ubuntu desktop?

I have seen a lot of people make it more mac os like. Thats not my thing for some reason. I‘d like to know what else there is.

Have a good one!

Hi folks!

I got my daily driver to work (which wasn't as hard as I thought) but linphone (VoIP solution) gives me a little bit of headache.

When I try clicking on a phone number in firefox (tel:) it asks for the app, I provided the linphone path but it doesn't do anything.

Now, I went digging. Turns out they have a gitlab instance with my exact issue unsolved for 2 yrs (but they're still active). I tried logging in with my gitlab credentials but it doesn't work. is that because it's self hosted? How should someone provide issues or other feedback if nobody can log in?

The Issue on gitlab: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/linphone-desktop/-/issues/27

Otherwise the app works great. was even easier to get working than micro sip on windows.

Thanks for reading! Have a good one.

Btw.: I know this is an app specific issue but we don't have a gitlab community yet, feel free to make one. :)

Hi folks,

I'm having some linux related problems (but not ubuntu server related so I don't post them here) and linux.org has helped me tremendously in the past so if you have issues, that don't seem to get fixed here, I highly recommend checking them out.

Have a good one.

Hi there! I found ubuntu server when I was starting to work in tech fulltime (I had done admin work and dev stuff before but not exclusively). A lot of folks had some linux experience and I learned about VMs at the time.

So I spun up a ubuntu server vm to check out linux. It took me a bit to get accustomed to the command line but it worked pretty well. Knowing some programming languages definitely helped to grasp the syntax.

I worked with the VM for some time and then started searching for ways to use my knowledge and hone it further. So I grabbed an old server that was in my basement and put ubuntu server on it.

This server now sits in my other room and has 8 TB of data on it, movies, tv shows (all backups of course...), my home automation system, dashboards, vaults, cloud data. The data is mirrored and backed up off site.

I also then came across it again at work when I took care of some servers we had there.

It has been quite a ride so far but also a lot of fun. currently trying to phase out my windows laptop for a ubuntu desktop tower. Wish me luck. :)

Thanks for reading. I'm curious to hear your stories.

I recently activated „unattended upgrades“ so that I might not have to update my system every 2-3 days by hand.

But nothing has really changed. From the logs I see that unattended upgrades does updates regularly but it never does all of them. So I still have updated pending every couple days.

I know, there are updates that can break your stuff but that can happen anyway. Maybe I‘m just missing a config entry or something. Btw. the same goes for autoreastart if needed. That I should activate as well.

Does anyone have experience with it?

Hi folks!

System

I‘m running ubuntu 22.04.2 on an old terra miniserver g2 with a xeon 4 core without mt, 16 gb ram and a redneck engineered usb-stick/ssd/hdd config which was supposed to be temporary. I have a 3-2-1 Backup solution though.

What happened

Today I opened my grafana panel and found it not working. Portainer told me that my influxdb container is down. So I ssh‘d in and the system told me it needed a restart. So I ran an update (including docker) and restarted. Nothing worked. Turns out, my dns (pihole) was offline. I found that docker was down completely. Grep syslog told me that docker couldn’t start since the docker config was defective.

An old mistake coming to haunt me

Turns out I had made a „weird“ docker config, using the /erc/docker/daemon.json. Instead of { „asset“:“value“, „asset“:“value“} I had done {„asset“:“value“}{„asset“:“value“}.

This led to the error but didn’t bother me for over a year and worked well. Something in this new update must have enforced the syntax or soenthing.

TL;DR

I made a janky docker daemon.json conf and got fucked by the update today. If your docker stops working, check the logs/daemon.json

Hi there,

I'm running ubuntu server on my Wortmann Terra G2 with (now upgraded) 16G DDR3 Ram, Xeon E3 1220v3 4 Core, with now 6 Drives (2x8 TB HDD Raid1, 2x 1 TB HDD Raid 1, 2x 250 GB SSD - soon raid 1)

While I generaly know my way around ubuntu, the sensors lm is giving me a hard time. The G2 runs on an Asus P9D-i itx Motherboard with kvm module which I have not touched yet.

I bought a fancy noctua 120mm casefan since my harddrives run too hot in the case (which is tiny, google wortmann G2). The new fan runs well but I cant detect the fans for either the cpu or the case.

I tried sensors detect and installed fancontrol, just to find out the fans are somehow not discoverable.

Any ideas how to proceed? I'd really like to give the casefan a specific speed to run at. Pretty sure I could gain knowledge in the bios but i really dont want to bring a monitor to the server just for that.

TL;DR: my ASUS P9D-i board wont show me fanspeeds with sensors-detect. What to do next?

In any case, thanks for reading. Have a good one.

Edit: I put a picture of the tower in the post if you're curious. :)

Edit 2: I forgot I have the manual for the server mainboard on my pc. the mainboard can see the fanspeeds and you can change the behavior there. How would I change that?

Hi there, I just ordered a second (similar) ssd to the one I have. Not a boot drive. Once it arrives, I'd like to put it in raid 1 with my current drive. The current drive is not empty (but I could back it up if necessary).

I have used mdadm in the past but never with a drive that is actually in production use. Which steps would you suggest?

Have a good one!

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