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Peculiar DNS clash on Ubuntu 18
by Jenny Hopkins 23 May '20

23 May '20

Hello, I have a computer running Ubuntu 18.4 with MATE desktop. With no apparent reason (no changes to either PC or DHCP server) the PC lost its DNS entries a few days ago, and seemed to be querying itself using IP 127.0.0.53 (or was it 153?). I used systemd-resolve to re-add the missing entries, and this worked, however the next day they had gone again. I then used the GUI provided by mate system-administration-network, and this worked (seems to run some perl scripts in /usr/share/system-tools-backends) but again, next day they had vanished and only the 127.0.0.53 appeared in the GUI. Has anyone any clue of what could be running overnight to overwrite the DNS entries? I can't even find where my hand-entered entries are ending up. Thanks, Jenny

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Alternatives to TsoHost?
by Chris Green 13 May '20

13 May '20

I have been using TsoHost as my main web hosting provider for almost ten years, until recently they have been very good. However over the past few weeks when I have contacted their support they really haven't been anywhere near as quick as they used to be, nor have they been particularly good at answering my questins. My sites all work OK still, no issues there, and support have eventually come up with answers but it's just nowhere near as good as it used to be. There's no auto-acknowledgement of E-Mail/posted support questions and even though they say they've moved a lot of technicians to Live Chat it's more often then not unavailable (not that I like Live Chat for technical support really). So has anyone else here who uses TsoHost noticed the deterioration? ... and maybe more to the point any suggestions for alternatives? I have around ten hosted web sites with very low traffic at the moment and that's unlikely to change. The one significant requirement other than the obvious sort of stuff is ssh access so I can use the site as a bridge/buffer for outside connections to home. -- Chris Green

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Fwd: RE: GOBA News
by Phil Thane 11 May '20

11 May '20

Noswaith da, I've just got 3 emails from a boatie contact, one normal (html) email, one with an attachment and one to a mailing list that was cc'd to me. The first two are fine, the other is below. I've got all the headers and the whole message in html (or xml?) but as code, none of my email clients render it properly. I think the possible difference is that she's used gmail to email me direct for the first two but has (I think) done the mailing list thing via Microshaft Office. Anyone care to explain what went wrong? We need to know if everyone on the list has got this garbled message! -- Phil -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RE: GOBA News Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 14:20:02 +0100 From: Claire Davies <clairecd27(a)gmail.com> To: steve(a)crossonsmith.co.uk <> " <steve(a)crossonsmith.co.uk>, "pebcsecretary(a)gmail.com" <pebcsecretary(a)gmail.com>, "warburtcar(a)aol.com" <warburtcar(a)aol.com>, "phow58(a)gmail.com" <phow58(a)gmail.com>, "darren.fergus(a)live.co.uk" <darren.fergus(a)live.co.uk>, "jane.moorman(a)ntlworld.com" <jane.moorman(a)ntlworld.com>, "lin.cox(a)talktalk.net" <lin.cox(a)talktalk.net> Cc: Phil Thane <editor(a)goba.org.uk>, Phil Thane <phil(a)pthane.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 200509-0, 09/05/2020), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean <html xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:sc= hemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/of= fice/2004/12/omml" xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta ht= tp-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"><meta name= =3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=3DEN-GB link=3Dblue vlink=3D"#954F72"><div cla= ss=3DWordSection1><div>= Dear ColleaguesFurt= her to Phil=E2=80=99s note below, we hope you are all still staying safe an= d keeping well.Thes= e times are unprecedented and like you all, I=E2=80=99m really missing boat= ing.=C2=A0 We are still very hopeful that you will be able to provide some = news stories/contributions for the forthcoming GOBA magazine =E2=80=93 the = deadline is by 8th June.We assume most club events have been cancelled, though I ha= ve heard on the grapevine that some of you might be still doing socials/get= togethers via zoom, let alone the odd competition.However, we would still welcome your news/s= tories, and here are a couple of things to think about (especially if you a= re looking at recruiting members for the future):So you could do a couple of things =E2=80=93 = you could either give us an update including:</div><ol style=3D'margin-= top:0cm' start=3D1 type=3D1><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'margin-bo= ttom:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Have you found any inv= entive ways to keep in contact with your members? How are your members doin= g? Competition results, etc</li><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'margi= n-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'>Any stories about = unusual wildlife coming onto your site?<o:p></o:p></li></ol>Or <ol style=3D'margin-top:0cm' st= art=3D1 type=3D1><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'margin-bottom:10.0pt= ;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>History about the club =E2=80=93 = when it was founded?</li><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'margin-botto= m:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>Where is it based, info a= bout your premises/marina</li><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'margin-= bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>Is the club for moto= r boats, sailing, rowing, paddling etc</li><li class=3DMsoListParagraph sty= le=3D'margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>Number = of Members/family boats </li><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D'margin-b= ottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>Your facilities =E2= =80=93 slip, hoist, crane etc....</li><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style=3D= 'margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>What sort of= social facilities do you have? This could range from bars, food, to the so= rt of events you would normally do?</li><li class=3DMsoListParagraph style= =3D'margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'>Your cont= act details, website, social media info, how a new member would join.</li><= /ol><o:p> </o:p></= p>I look forward to hea= ring from you all as soon as you can.Many thanksClaire DaviesAssistant Editor =E2=80=93 GOBA NEWS<o:p> </o:p><o:p> <= /o:p><o:p> </o:p>Sen= t from <a href=3D"https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=3D550986">Mail</a= > for Windows 10<o:p> </o:p><div style=3D= 'mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;pad= ding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'>From: <a href=3D"mailto:editor@goba.org.uk">Phil Thane</a> <b= > Sent: 29 March 2020 15:22 To: <a > href=3D"mailto:clairecd27@g= mail.com">Claire Davies</a> Subject: GOBA News</div><o:p> </o:p>Hello Boat Clubs= <o:p> </o:p>First, I hop= e you are all well, also friends, family and club members.<o:p> </o:p>Secondly, after asking in= the last few issues of GOBA News for an assistant= (and in due course replacement) I now have one - Claire Davies from OVRC. (She on the mailing list above if you want to make= a note). Claire will be editing the Club News sec= tion of the Summer 2020 issue so you'll be hearing=   more from her in due course.<o:p> </o:= p>The current lock down has put an end to boating = for the time being and I suspect cancelled a lot o= f the activities you'd normally include in your Cl= ub News pieces. Perhaps it would be better if you used the space to recruit  more members for happier times with a run d= own of the sort of things you normally do, where y= ou are based, details of your clubhouse, marina/ya= rd facilities if you have any, and photos of said facilities. Plus of course contact details.<o:p>&= nbsp;</o:p>If you are planning to send a news lett= er to your members in the near future, or have a s= ocial media presence or webpage to keep in touch with them, could you please ask if anyone would like to write something for = GOBA News. 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If you have any members who have a= n electric boat or are planning to convert please ask them to get in touch.<o:p> </o:p>-- <o:p> </o:p>Phil Thane<o:p> </o:p>Editor GOBA News<o:p> </o:p></= p>01767 449759<o:p> </o:= p>07582 750607<o:p> = </o:p>editor(a)goba.org.uk <mailto:editor@goba.or= g.uk><o:p> </o:p>= <o:p> </o:p>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 The Great Ouse= Boating Association, founded over 50 years ago and =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 still =E2=80=98Navigating the Future' for more than > 300= 0 boaters on The=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 River Great Ous= e and tributaries. <o:p> </o:p>=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 www.goba.org.uk <http://www.goba.org.uk/= > <o:p> </o:p>=C2= =A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Insignia ordering available online. 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Pinebook Pro
by Phil Thane 02 May '20

02 May '20

I promised you a report at some point, so here you go. I ordered a Pinebook Pro as soon the regular user version was available. Pine64 is a very 'open' hardware developer starting with an ARM64 SoC board rather like a Raspberry Pi but more powerful then creating the original Pinebook. The Pro is bigger and more more powerful, but very slim like a Macbook. They are currently developing a PinePhone and PineTime watch. They also have a cluster board and modules and have just begun to shift their own server stuff onto their own ARM64 cluster. All the hardware is released in limited numbers at a prototype stage to keen developers to hack on. Then there's a community edition when the hardware is sorted but the free software community get stuck in to tweak various distros and drivers before finally releasing a polished version to the masses. Mine arrived just after Christmas. Probably the best comparison with other devices would be a Chromebook with a full Linux distro installed. But without the hassle. At the time they were released with an ARM version of Debian. There were a couple of firmware bugs in the first few, a keyboard repeat fault that kkkkkeeeepppptttt repeating letters and a hyper-sensitive touch pad that sent your typing mad if your wrist touched the keypad ever so gently. There was a firmware upgrade issued almost straightaway with very detailed instructions. That omitted one step and sent me into a panic. Sorted though. Debian was OK but a bit dull. Last month Pine64 announced that the Manjaro port that various aficionados had been raving about on the forums was to become the default option on new PinebookPros. And Manjaro released a simple to install version to upgrade existing machines. If you are really keen and want to hack it seems possible to port all manner of OS but I want a laptop to use for all the usual stuff, writing, email, photos... I'm not a hacker. The early port of Manjaro had no installer, one had to use DD to copy an image to the internal EMMC which frankly didn't appeal. The final released version has an install script that works much like any normal distro installer. I chose the KDE version of Manjaro, though once again I failed to get on with Kontact and soon reverted to Thunderbird. When it works Kontact is the closest thing to Outlook (as I remember it from long ago) but it's been a pain ever since they based it around the Akonadi database server. That aside KDE is fine, I've changed the theme a few times and tinkered with the settings, there seems to be an obsession these days with 'Dark Mode' and flat icons nut as ever you can customise it to your heart's content. Manjaro is based on Arch, so my habit of sudo apt... doesn't work and I haven't yet learned the Arch equivalents. There's a good software installer and upgrader though. Software selection is more up to date than Debian, including Gimp 2.10. Both Debian and Manjaro have a problem with 'Sleep' so I suspect it's a firmware thing, there was something on the forum about it a while ago but it went over my head. By trial and error I've figured out that if I have T'bird or Firefox in an active window sleep doesn't work. It seems to, but then wakes up again after a few seconds even if the lid is shut. If you close, or even just minimise the windows then it sleeps like a log. Battery life is pretty good, it usually lasts me a couple of days, but I don't use it much. It was intended to be my connection to the outside world on this year's great boat trip but that's on hold for obvious reasons. All in all I'm pleased with it. It'd be better if there was a UK or even EU supplier, it's $200 US but with delivery and VAT came to £286 here. Still a bargain for a lightweight 14" laptop though. -- Phil Thane www.pthane.co.uk Tweet @pthane 01767 449759 07582 750607

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systemd services which only start on some MAC addresses
by Mark Rogers 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Sorry for the vague subject! What I want to achieve is a single filesystem image (for a Pi) that can be installed on multiple devices (identical SD card contents) but the list of systemd services that runs will depend on the MAC address of the unit. I can think of various ways to do it, I'm after thoughts as to the best way (which probably isn't in my list!). My thoughts: 1. Have all "optional" services disabled but run a script on startup which selectively starts them (ought to be OK but I'm not sure how robust this would be and by starting manually I'd lose some of the benefits of optimised startup and dependency management by systemd) 2. Modify the actual scripts that the services run so that they do all start, but those that shouldn't run exit immediately. (Would work for my own scripts but not for other system services.) 3. Use systemd "ConditionPathExists" or similar; have a unit which starts first and creates temporary files for all optional units that should start, then those units won't start if the temporary file hasn't been created. Downside is that it means hacking unit files for system services but might be more robust than (1)? Note that I want the list of units started per MAC to be a single file (per MAC or combined, I don't mind) - ie I don't want each service to include the list of MACs that it starts for as that would be a maintenance nightmare. Any other suggestions, or comments about my ideas, or other thoughts? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 1st May.
by Viperfang 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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Forum software that also allows E-Mail posting and reading - any recommendations?
by Chris Green 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

I used to belong to a very nice boating forum where you could visit the forum on the web but it also functioned as a mailing list. Sadly they moved platform and changed to a forum which didn't support E-Mail. I'm now looking for forum software which does what their old forum did, I want a web forum which also supports posting and reading by E-Mail. I've discovered Discourse which seems to do this but does anyone know of any other possibilities? To be installed on Ubuntu probably, either a real system or, more likely, a virtual server. -- Chris Green

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Samba 4 as a domain controller
by B D 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hi, Where I work, we have a small disconnected network in which there is almost as many servers as users <rofl>. Some are old MS2008r2 some are newer Server 2016 machines and in the next couple of years they all will be out-of-support. With the imminent decision of what to do with the upgrade and my attempt to introduce Nextcloud to the environment I started testing Samba4 as AD. All seams to be working, if I have access to RSAT installed on a Windows workstation, but it gets more complicated from Ubuntu cli. With the help of some tools I found here and there I can manage the domain but it's is far from pretty (not to mention business continuity - if I was to leave such setup no-one would be able to manage - or maybe that's a good thing? ;) My questions here are: #1 - Has anyone came across Samba4 environment or has personal experiences? #2 - Do you know of any tools that would make it easier to manage Samba4? #3 (this is a lengthy one) How on earth RedHat is building its environment where it manages muiltiple client OSs (purely theoretical question but I could consider moving to CentOS if AD management is simpler). Cheers Bart

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Re: [ALUG] Samba 4 as a domain controller
by B D 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Hi Stuart, Zentyal and Nethserver are options that I do consider but they are so heavily customised I'm concerned about installing Nextcloud & Collabora from other packages. That could lead to other problems after a while. Cheers pon., 20 kwi 2020 o 11:32 Stuart Bailey <Stuart.Bailey(a)ast-uk.com> napisał(a): > > Have you looked at Zentyal? > > ________________________________ > From: main <main-bounces(a)lists.alug.org.uk> on behalf of B D <dzidek23(a)gmail.com> > Sent: 20 April 2020 11:29 > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk>; main(a)lists.plug.org.uk <main(a)lists.plug.org.uk> > Subject: [ALUG] Samba 4 as a domain controller > > Hi, > > Where I work, we have a small disconnected network in which there is > almost as many servers as users <rofl>. Some are old MS2008r2 some are > newer Server 2016 machines and in the next couple of years they all > will be out-of-support. With the imminent decision of what to do with > the upgrade and my attempt to introduce Nextcloud to the environment I > started testing Samba4 as AD. > > All seams to be working, if I have access to RSAT installed on a > Windows workstation, but it gets more complicated from Ubuntu cli. > With the help of some tools I found here and there I can manage the > domain but it's is far from pretty (not to mention business continuity > - if I was to leave such setup no-one would be able to manage - or > maybe that's a good thing? ;) > > My questions here are: > #1 - Has anyone came across Samba4 environment or has personal experiences? > #2 - Do you know of any tools that would make it easier to manage Samba4? > #3 (this is a lengthy one) How on earth RedHat is building its > environment where it manages muiltiple client OSs (purely theoretical > question but I could consider moving to CentOS if AD management is > simpler). > > Cheers > Bart > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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DMARC and ALUG
by Mark Rogers 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

I've been made aware of some of my messages to this list going into spam because of a failed DMARC check. How should I fix this? Note: I have control over my sending domain's DNS. Should I just remove the DMARC DNS record? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Cheap Linux VPS
by Steve Mynott 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Can anyone recommend a cheap Linux VPS? -- Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com> cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

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Re: [ALUG] Installing Ubuntu dual-boot on an Asus X512FAC laptop
by Mark Rogers 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 18:32, B D <dzidek23(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder if your "corrupted" drive is a hibernated (locked) ntfs > partition... in windows 10 when you "power down" the OS it hibernates > more that switches off. Try to load hard drive pulled from windows > machine and you are more than likely to find "corrupted"/inaccessible > filesystem. The corrupted partition is where the EFI boot code sits, that is FAT not NTFS. That said I did disable Windows fast boot (or whatever it is called) as I know that doesn't play nicely with dual boot because, as you say, it leaves the main Windows partition locked. > I'm really interested what did you had to do to fix the EFI boot? Wiped the disk and let Ubuntu do its thing. >From what I read, if I now reinstall Windows it'll mess up grub (to be expected) but aside from that (which grub-repair will fix) that will allow dual boot. But I don't have sufficient need for dual-boot that I can be bothered now I have a working Ubuntu install. > For the num lock issues have you tried to update the BIOS to the latest version? Yes, and sadly no option, which seems an odd omission but there you go I have opened a support ticket with ASUS, I'm sure they can tell me if I have missed something.. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Numlock at boot (grub)
by Mark Rogers 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

So now the laptop boots, and I have the boot disk encrypted. But like every good password it includes numbers, and the laptop boots with numlock off. Annoyingly there's no UEFI setting for it. Does anyone know if there's a way to force numlock on before entering the encryption password? Seems like an obvious need but the only answers I have found are to enable it in the BIOS which only works if the option is there. I do have numlockx installed but that only kicks in later in the boot. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Re: [ALUG] Installing Ubuntu dual-boot on an Asus X512FAC laptop
by Mark Rogers 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 12:57, B D <dzidek23(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Since Windows 10 was introduced it always messed up with Linux boot. > If your wife is happy with Ubuntu, why do you need to keep Windows at > all? I thought that more recently Win10 played more nicely? My concern here is that for whatever reason grub isn't getting a look in. If I go straight from Ubuntu install (inc grub, in theory) to booting Ubuntu (or at least trying to) then surely Windows never gets chance to "break" anything? If so a wipe and clean install of Ubuntu only could well leave me with nothing that boots at all. And I I might struggle to restore Windows at that point (I'd have lost the OEM install partition, and whilst I could reinstall Win10 from USB I'd have lost all the supplied ASUS drivers which may be problematic.) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Lineage OS
by Phil Thane 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Hello LUGS, Am I allowed to ask Android questions? It is a Linux distro, right? Backstory: I bought a WIleyfox Storm mobile several years ago, mostly because it ran Cyanogen out of the box. (My previous phone was a discount job from Orange that I'd rooted and wiped and put Cyanogen on). I was pretty pleased with it right up to when Wileyfox went into administration around the same time Cyanogen closed. Three years ago I tried to put the last Cyanogen version on it, but failed and reverted to stock. It has been getting slow and was full of crap so I decided to install Lineage OS (fork of and follow on to Cyanogen). So it's unlocked and rooted and USB debug enabled, has been for years. As per Lineage install instructions I have Fastboot and ADB on my PC. Put phone into Fastboot mode and flashed a recovery ROM (twrp). Recovery mode works OK. Wiped data and cache partitions. Onto flashing Lineage OS and it seems to go well but ends with a message 'Signature Verification Failed'. Tried it both from ADB via PC and by loading Lineage to SD card and running from there. Same error. Lineage 'support' is via a Reddit forum and lots of people have asked the same question in relation to several different phones. The answers make no sense to me, I guess because the twrp screens vary. Some suggest that twrp cannot verify signed files so the user must verify it manually, but there's no clue how to do that. The Lineage download filename includes 'signed' but there's no sign of a downloadable key. Not to worry, I thought. There's a recovery mode... It boots OK finds my WiFi and accepts a password. The next screen requires my Google login. I used to use a fake ID on the phone 'will.e.ffox' (ie Wileyfox) but the setup won't accept that, it wants the 'email previously used on the device'. As I wiped the device there should be no record so I assume that the recovery rom has a username and pwd all of its own. But what? Advice online is all about recovering lost Google passwords to known accounts. I guess what I really need to know is how do criminals reset stolen phones and get past Google's checks? -- Phil Thane www.pthane.co.uk Tweet @pthane 01767 449759 07582 750607

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Installing Ubuntu dual-boot on an Asus X512FAC laptop
by Mark Rogers 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

I'm trying to install Ubuntu on a new Asus laptop and not having much success. Or more precisely I can install it easily enough but cannot access it once installed. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 Beta because of its new kernel which should give me access to all my hardware, so I'm mindful that might be an issue, but I'm hoping someone has seen something like this before and knows the workaround. Before I started I reduced the Windows partition size down to create space for Ubuntu. From Windows I then reboot to a USB key with Ubuntu on it, I then boot into Ubuntu Live desktop and run the installer. I proceed through the installation without issues and reboot. At which point Windows boots - there's no grub, no option to do anything else. If I go into the BIOS (UEFI laptop settings) I can force it to boot from Ubuntu, but that just gets me a blank screen on boot (no grub, nothing past the Asus boot logo). If I boot back into Ubuntu via the USB stick and install and run boot repair, it gives me no repair option to try (first time I've seen that: the repair button is just missing). Thoughts? The laptop is for my wife and she's used Ubuntu for the last few years with no issues, so I'm reluctant to send her back to Windows even temporarily. I can try 19.10 if anyone thinks that might be the issue, but the fact that even boot repair doesn't give me any options makes me think this is a UEFI/Windows issue not an installer one. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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ntpd can't resolve server but DNS is working
by Mark Rogers 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

I just noticed the time is wrong on my Pi (heavily modified version of Raspbian). syslog shows DNS issues: Mar 22 12:08:00 pi daemon.err ntpd[569]: error resolving pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org: Temporary failure in name resolution (-3) .. but I can ping 1.debian.pool.ntp.org just fine, /etc/resolv.conf lists 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 so it ought to work. Suggestions? I don't want to reboot or anything until I understand the cause. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER

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Opensource remote conferencing
by Steve Mynott 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Hi All, With the current situation it's obvious there will be more remot conferencing and I was wondering what open source solution (GPL/BSD or similar licence) people recommend? Ideally it would allow audio, video, text chat and shared whiteboarding and be cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) and be fairly simple to operate. -- Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com> cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

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Where does software RAID get configured and started?
by Chris Green 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

I have an old WD NAS that I'm trying to resurrect. It's actually mostly working and I can see the web configuration GUI and login to it with ssh. However its RAID setup has got broken somehow. It was configured to use its two 1Tb disk drives in SBOD mode to give what is supposed to look like one 2Tb disk. However something has gone wrong and it would appear that only one of the two disk drives is configured on the RAID array. It's not possible to unRAID it (I hate RAID) so one can't just configure it to have two disks. The web configuration GUI just shows that both drives are OK/good but that the second drive isn't joining the RAID configuration properly. So how is software RAID usually configured and started up? I can't find anything that looks as if it's "start up the RAID software" in any of the init files in /etc. So how's it done? The 'symptom' I see is that /dev/md4 isn't created and mounted, all the rest are OK (i.e. /dev/md0, /dev/md1, /dev/md2 and /dev/md3). -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] ALUG Norwich Pub Meet Thursday 12th March
by Viperfang 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Hello Norwich Aluggers, Our monthly ALUG Norwich social meeting will be held this Thursday, 12th March at The Coach and Horses (82 Thorpe Road, Norwich, NR1 1BA). The meeting officially starts at 8pm, although some people may arrive earlier. More information on those people can be found on the list and the IRC channel. If you are unsure if you will recognise us then make yourself and your intent to attend known by either posting on list or visiting us on IRC so we can look out for you rather than hiding in the corner. Optionally you could ask at the bar if they know where the geeky computer weirdos are and they'll point you in the right direction (seriously!). Another possibility is look for heaps of electronics on a table that may possibly look like movie props that would used for detonating explosives. Feel free to bring electronics/laptops/gadgets to the meet, you will by no means be alone. Ben Bewick aka Viperfang NB: This mail is automated, please refer to the usual sources for more information. ALUG Contact Details: Website : http://www.alug.org.uk/ IRC : #alug on irc.alug.org.uk List : http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo Twitter : http://twitter.com/anglianlug Identica: TBA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2381613902 ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via https://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Re: [ALUG] Is there a way to discover what subnet a device is using?
by Chris Green 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 01:06:47PM +0000, linusoft wrote: > Try netdiscover. It uses arp to find hosts on an interface. > Thanks, looks like it should do the sort of thing I want. -- Chris Green

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Is there a way to discover what subnet a device is using?
by Chris Green 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

I have an old WD My Book NAS which has been sitting on the shelf for quite a while (i.e. three or four years). I just wanted to see if the disk drives in it have anything useful on them still so I powered it up and I'm trying to 'see' it. The lights on the front are doing the right sort of thing but I can't get the reset button to do anything. It does have custom software in it so it may be that the reset/power switches don't do what the manual says they should. I have of course tried simply connecting it to my main LAN which has a DHCP server but that hasn't got it working so it seems (if the WD box is working) that it must have a static IP. I've tried guessing what LAN subnet it might be set up for and connecting to my laptop with the same subnet configured statically in the laptop. The hardware interface comes up OK, gigabit duplex, but no actual data connection. I can't try many subnets this way. So is there any tool that I can install on my laptop which will try and get some sort of response from the WD box and help me identify the IP address? -- Chris Green

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 6th March.
by Viperfang 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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Thunderbird problem OT?
by Bev Nicolson 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

I have googled this but haven't yet found anything that addresses the problem I have. Every so often I'll get emails that are directed to the spam folder. Some will be spam, but some are emails I'd like to know about. The difficulty is, I don't know there are any in the folder unless I look because, unlike other folders, it doesn't show a number for new emails. I've put the addresses into my address book, I've made sure I have subscribed to the folder. Nothing's worked so far. Any ideas? Bev. (Linux Mint 19.01., Thunderbird 68.4.1)

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How to get the MAC address of the 'local' system given the IP address?
by Chris Green 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

You'd think this was easy but although I can find the information easily enough I can't find a concise way of doing it. What I want is to get same information for the system I'm logged into as is given by 'arp-scan -lx' for all other systems on the LAN:- root@t470:~# arp-scan -lx 192.168.1.1 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx DrayTek Corp. 192.168.1.3 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH 192.168.1.4 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Raspberry Pi Foundation 192.168.1.10 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. 192.168.1.20 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx DrayTek Corp. 192.168.1.50 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. 192.168.1.96 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx HUMAX Co., Ltd. 192.168.1.98 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. 192.168.1.111 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. 192.168.1.114 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx MICRO-STAR INT'L CO.,LTD 192.168.1.95 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Sonos, Inc. 192.168.1.104 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Amazon Technologies Inc. I can get IP address of my current LAN connection using 'hostname -i':- chris$ hostname -i 192.168.1.92 ... but I can't find a neat way of getting the corresponding MAC address and company information as for arp-scan. The MAC address can be obtained using ifconfig or ip but it's an exercise in frustration trying to extract the relevant bits:- chris$ ifconfig enp0s31f6: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether c8:5b:76:de:2a:fc txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 16 memory 0xec200000-ec220000 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback) RX packets 639 bytes 279749 (279.7 KB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 639 bytes 279749 (279.7 KB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 wlp4s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.92 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::8239:9067:e11:92be prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 14315 bytes 7281010 (7.2 MB) RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 14719 bytes 1911802 (1.9 MB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 You'd have to first find that the WiFi device wlp4s0 is providing the LAN interface (I want it to work when it's wired with enp0s31f6 when that's in use, can't just hard code wlp4s0) and then go to the 'ether' line to get the MAC address. Even then you don't get the company name. It's possible but hard work and messy, I'd like to find a simple way. -- Chris Green

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