[00:02] <Kevin__H> Hi there, I am trying to install ubuntu server 12.04, I've tried installing GUI interfaces, but I haven't had any luck, any suggestions?
[00:03] <Kevin__H> I've tried, sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop, but it returns unable to locate package ubuntu-desktop, I've also done updates
[00:04] <Kevin__H> Also, when I use tasksel, and try to install features such as Basic Ubuntu Server and Samba file server, I get "aptitude failed"
[00:42] <uberdub> I was told to come in here about my machine refusing to suspend to ram in 11.1 or 12.04
[00:43] <uberdub> works in 10.04
[00:46] <uberdub> can anyone shed some light on this issue?
[00:57] <uberdub> any one alive in here?
[02:23] <riz0n> Hi, I recently set up a new Ubuntu 12 LTS server, and copied the Dovecot config file from my old 10.04 LTS server. When I try to start Dovecot, it is not starting (it acts like it is, but it immediately terminates) ... Can someone help me get Dovecot up and running?
[02:25] <patdk-lap> riz0n, heh, that was fail
[02:26] <patdk-lap> you should go to the dovecot website and read the dovecot 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions
[02:35] <riz0n> says ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set. I don't have any ssl setting in my conf file. how can i disable that
[02:38] <riz0n> i put ssl=disable in my file
[02:38] <riz0n> when i did the 1.x to 2.x conversion
[02:38] <riz0n> it claims no errors
[02:38] <riz0n> still not booting
[02:38] <riz0n> this is crazy
[03:03] <riz0n> holy wow the dovecot conf is TOTALLY different than the old dovecot, it is split into like 20 separate files. thank goodness I found the "sample" files burried deep in ubuntu, copied them, made the couple of "minor" changes to pop3 (if i check my mail with pop3 and leave files on server, i dont want the messages marking as read for IMAP)
[03:03] <riz0n> and now i can telnet localhost imap :)
[03:10] <skreech_> How can you troubleshoot acpi issues?
[03:15] <riz0n> ok so here is what i have accomplished. i got dovecot running, but i can only access it via localhost. any time i try to access it from another host, it fails (like its not wanting to bind to the network adapter)
[03:31] <riz0n> OK Now I think I have dovecot squared away. I can access IMAP. But my SMTP (I guess that's postfix) is not wanting to send out mail. Says authentication failed.
[03:33] <riz0n> I also copied the postconf folder from the old ubuntu install to the new server
[03:34] <zul> hallyn: sure we can probably try it monday
[03:41] <riz0n> i can see this just isn't going to work. i can't even send mail from gmail back in
[03:43] <riz0n> what is the best way to migrate from one ubuntu server to another without having to pull the last of my hair out
[03:44] <riz0n> i just plugged the ethernet back into the old linux server and all my email immediately delivered.
[03:44] <riz0n> So for now I'm going to kill out this new ubuntu install, and try again later
[04:50] <JJ-Neo> What's the eaiest way to setup ubuntu server + LAMP + mencoder
[04:50] <JJ-Neo> *easiest
[04:52] <JJ-Neo> sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ ?
[04:55] <skreech_> and mencoder
[05:04] <JJ-Neo> is the mencoder the stable release?
[06:06] <riz0n> Hi, are any of you guys awake, and can help me solve a problem with Postfix and Ubuntu 12.04LTS? When I try to authenticate it just fails. Even if I do "web mail" and it says it sends the message, it doesn't deliver.
[07:31] <RoyK> riz0n: if it doesn't deliver, it might be in queue, run "mailq"
[09:27] <uberdub> what does a noob do if they think they might have found a bug?
[09:30] <EMKO> Get a debug log and report it
[09:30] <EMKO> Oh nvm wrong channel
[09:31] <uberdub> Yeah, havent narrowed it down that far yet.
[11:57] <edgy> Hi, update-grub shows lots of "error: physical volume pv0 not found." as seen at http://pastebin.ca/2161784, any help?
[15:22] <hallyn> jdstrand: yay, found the problem.  my tcg fallback patch needed updating.  tests now pass 100%
[15:23] <hallyn> will update later this weekend or monday
[15:23] <hallyn> oh, zul said he was going to test monday, maybe i'll wait
[15:27] <verbul> hello?
[15:37] <DDemon> My 12.04 server is currently idle, but has a load of 1.25. (It used to be 0.00 most of the time as it runs light applications.) It has 0% CPU use, no zombie process and nothing in I/O wait. It also only uses 420mb of the 4 gig of memory. Does anyone know a reason why this might be happening?
[16:07] <RoyK> DDemon: do you have any processes in Z or D state?
[16:09] <DDemon> None in D, I don't really know what you mean by Z, how do I look that up?
[16:09] <RoyK> ps axf
[16:09] <RoyK> just look at the process status
[16:09] <DDemon> swap the letters, I ment none in Z :)
[16:09] <RoyK> so one or two in D?
[16:10] <DDemon> none
[16:10] <RoyK> I've seen that on servers with a high uptime, load avg high, but nothing to do
[16:10] <RoyK> high uptime being a year or two
[16:10] <DDemon> I rebooted the server multiple times
[16:10] <RoyK> can you pastebin ps axf output?
[16:11] <DDemon> You can check the stats on http://dhdv.nl (Site is only used as system info site)
[16:11] <DDemon> sure
[16:11] <DDemon> give me a second please
[16:12] <RoyK> didn't know atoms came with quadcore :)
[16:12] <DDemon> dual core with hyperthreading :)
[16:12] <RoyK> ah
[16:13] <RoyK> turn off hyperthreading, then, it's usually better to let the linux scheduler handle that bit
[16:13] <DDemon> http://pastebin.com/EpEG11GQ
[16:14] <RoyK> so... nothing, just the teamspeak server doing a bit
[16:14] <RoyK> have you tried mumble?
[16:14] <DDemon> It used to run just fine with an avarage of 0.00, I fear it had an update do this awhile ago, but no idea what update it did
[16:14] <DDemon> no, but even if I turn everything off it remains on a high load
[16:16] <JanC> DDemon: also checked kernel threads?
[16:18] <DDemon> no, I have not, how do you do this?
[16:19] <JanC> hm, I usually use htop, where you enable/disable viewing them with "K" (capital k)
[16:20] <JanC> seems like ps shows these anyway
[16:20] <DDemon> ah, I see thanks, I'll paste the results of this to pastebin also, as I am not sure how to read this
[16:20] <RoyK> DDemon: really, if the server's still responsive and works well, you can probably ignore it
[16:21] <DDemon> http://pastebin.com/aN1YjHkQ
[16:22] <DDemon> It is functioning properly yes, but it kindoff bugs me it displays a wrong load, can't tell if it's doing anything now
[16:22] <RoyK> what is console-kit-daemon anyway?
[16:22] <DDemon> I think it uses that to fill up the empty space
[16:24] <RoyK> DDemon: as in the higgs boson? ;)
[16:26] <JanC> RoyK: I'd certainly want to know what is causing this—it could always be something hidden by a rootkit or such...  ;)
[16:29] <RoyK> JanC: just download chkrootkit or something
[16:29] <RoyK> for a start
[16:30] <JanC> that's not exactly very useful
[16:30] <RoyK> DDemon: ls -l /bin/ps
[16:31] <DDemon> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 101240 Dec 12  2011 /bin/ps
[16:31] <RoyK> so probably not changed lately
[16:31] <JanC> not when run on a (potentially) compromised system; run from a live image it might be more useful, of course
[16:31] <RoyK> (unless someone is nasty enough to hack into kernelspace to change mtime)
[16:32] <JanC> otherwise it wouldn't be a rootkit  ;)
[16:32] <RoyK> I don't think I've seen such a kit ;)
[16:32] <JanC> I have
[16:33] <JanC> on Windows & on linux
[16:33] <DDemon> Perhaps it is best that I just do a fresh install then, the server itself only runs teamspeak and apache, so easy to reinstall
[16:33] <JanC> and that was years ago
[16:33] <RoyK> that changed a binary and kept the file date?
[16:34] <JanC> it doesn't have to change ps if the kernel doesn't show the process to userspace...
[16:34] <RoyK> DDemon: can you sha512sum /bin/ps ?
[16:34] <DDemon> 4494c7e1d45b980ae2726151ce44d58f51481e281f4c946c5ed20bc2f44c3017220f7553f79a3183a82a1d2046f089e63ef752bacf1fd26e9a630a7ce272b976  /bin/ps
[16:34] <JanC> and it can easily fake the filesystem
[16:35] <RoyK> DDemon: amd64 precise?
[16:35] <DDemon> There have been some breaking attempts on my server, but root is disabled and ssh is limited to IP
[16:35] <DDemon> yes
[16:35] <RoyK> 4494c7e1d45b980ae2726151ce44d58f51481e281f4c946c5ed20bc2f44c3017220f7553f79a3183a82a1d2046f089e63ef752bacf1fd26e9a630a7ce272b976  /bin/ps
[16:35] <JanC> DDemon: I'm not saying there is something wrong, just that it is one possible explanation
[16:36] <RoyK> possibly the same thing I've seen earlier, then
[16:36] <RoyK> high load and no idea why
[16:36] <RoyK> DDemon: try installing oprofile and start profiling
[16:37] <JanC> one other thing is that ps gives you sort of a snapshot
[16:38] <JanC> so if some process spikes at 100% (or more) very shortly, it might not show up in ps
[16:39] <DDemon> Is it correct that oprofile is no ubuntu package? It does not seem to be able to locate it
[16:40] <RoyK> a process spiking won't change load average
[16:40] <RoyK> hrmf - seems they have dropped it
[16:41] <RoyK> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+package/oprofile
[16:41] <RoyK> should be there, but isn't
[16:43] <skreech_> uberdub: where is the bug?
[16:58] <DDemon> RoyK, JanC. Thanks for your help with this problem, I have decided that I should just do a reinstall and hopefully fix it (should take 1 hour tops) If it does not get fixed I know it's not a software problem. :)
[16:58] <JanC> could still be software then, just one that is a bug  ;)
[16:59] <DDemon> true, will see :)
[17:26] <DDemon> Is it smart to install ubuntu by the "guided and install LVM" when I only have 1 harddrive in the server? (ssd) Or should one just sellect "Guided use entire disk" ?
[17:26] <RoyK> just use lvm
[17:26] <RoyK> it doesn't hurt
[17:27] <RoyK> or even better, do it manually with lvm
[17:28] <RoyK> my standard setup is: small 1GB partition for /boot with ext2, the rest for physical partition for lvm, create swap and root there, minimal, say, 1GB swap and 10GB root
[17:28] <RoyK> and expand later on demand
[17:30] <RoyK> separate partition for /home is usually good
[17:30] <RoyK> easier when you have to reinstall
[17:32] <DDemon> ah, I was too quick, did not see you type manual, I had already started guided :s
[17:33] <SpaceBass> hey folks
[17:33] <DDemon> I regularly download the full /home to a different computer over a gigabit network though, and the server has very little data on it, so it's quick to backup to a different ocmputer on the network :)
[17:33] <DDemon> Hello SPacebass
[17:34] <SpaceBass> I have a sever that failed doing a release upgrade. Now apt and dpkg report errors processing base-files
[17:34] <SpaceBass> http://pastebin.com/1cY3N2c1
[17:40] <DDemon> I'm sure someone smarter has a better idea, but I googled some and found someone having the same issue. He fixed it by downloading the live CD (Can use USB) and upgrade using that. (Go to install then upgrade)
[17:40] <DDemon> It's 1 option you could try if all else fails :)
[17:54] <SpaceBass> thanks DDemon, will keep that in mind
[18:10] <DDemon> RoyK, JanC? fresh install is having the same result unfortunantly :(
[19:03] <com7> hi everyone
[19:04] <com7> i want to transfer my home-ubuntu "playground" to something, maybe called a server
[19:05] <com7> so im offered ubuntu server or debian, ubuntu i know a little, so id like to ask you
[19:06] <com7> ubuntu server is - i hope - tha same thing like the last LTS version an without the x.
[19:06] <com7> and maybe bind, sendmail, apache etc. by default installed
[19:17] <axisys> on solaris eth0:1 .. eth0:8 for 8 instances of tacacs+ server all on same subnet was doing network lot better than in ubuntu lucid 64 bit
[19:17] <axisys> does linux network under performs  by default? do I need some tweaking?
[19:20] <RoyK> how did you measure this?
[19:21] <RoyK> and why would you want several ip addresses for the same nic in the first place?
[19:24] <DDemon> Hey RoyK, I tried the fresh install with the latest 12.04 server, it had the same issue, I then tried a different distro so I could find out if it really was something on my system, so I installed debian to test, sellected all packages to install so I could let it work abit, and it has been sitting on 0.0 0.10 load for the past half hour, So I'm thinking it's something in ubuntu :[
[19:26] <RoyK> DDemon: there is very little difference between ubuntu and debian
[19:26] <RoyK> DDemon: how long did you let the new ubuntu install rest?
[19:27] <DDemon> I installed it and went for some tea, I'm thinking about 15 min orso
[19:28] <DDemon> But the longer the system was on, the higher the load became
[19:35] <DDemon> I will try ubuntu 10.04 lts and 12.04 on this computer as a VM, see if there are any differences
[19:51] <axisys> RoyK: tacacs+ authentication was failing for scripts that wanted to login to about 200 juniper routers at the same time .. after switching it to linux.. we had to add delay to make the script not fail.. on solaris same script was working fine for 8 yrs.. no issue
[19:52] <axisys> s/for scripts/for this script/
[19:52] <axisys> we have to have 8 instances of tacacs+ server running on same subnet
[19:52] <axisys> cisco talks to 192.168.0.20, juniper to .21 and so on
[19:53] <axisys> the server has only two physical interfaces
[20:25] <DDemon> RoyK: It's been 10min after install (12.04 server clean) and it has a load of 0.80 on an i7 machine with ssd, I will let it run for 10 more minutes see what it does then